Example sentences of "in the [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the half-hour I had spent with Lord Byron , I had forgotten that it was again raining steadily . |
| 2 | Even when people are sitting in the chairs I think I could push them over , and bigger things too , much bigger things than chairs and tables … |
| 3 | In the gallery I observed a group of six and seven year old children allowed to ‘ look ’ at the pictures , gravitate towards this before all others in the room . |
| 4 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 5 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 6 | I like to see a career structure in the company I work for |
| 7 | You 're not interested in the things I like . |
| 8 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
| 9 | That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken . |
| 10 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 11 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 12 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 13 | And in the chapel I saw us standing |
| 14 | And we have got , I must tell you , I do n't know if you 've been , and win , we have got it in the hall I do n't know if you 've been in recently but ha we have got some new chairs ! |
| 15 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 16 | Somewhere in the middle I spotted Basil , the rough-coated Jack Russell , and squeezed through for an on-the-spot interview . |
| 17 | In the middle I want you to draw a picture of each item , and then , the land population , industry , and why food production , Sam you 're not listening . |
| 18 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 19 | ‘ About waist deep in the middle I reckon , ’ he told himself . |
| 20 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 21 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 22 | In the dormitories I identified the beds in which I had slept , with the same trays beneath them for dirty clothes and the same chairs beside them . |
| 23 | It 's not a case of helping because in the letters I know what , I know what I 'm doing , I 'm just , I 'm just gone to , |
| 24 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 25 | She was confined to bed and had infrequent visits from a nurse ; since my father was still in the Army I looked after myself and skipped school to visit my mother who , by this time , was in a hospital for the terminally ill . |
| 26 | In fact during my time in the army I learnt to enjoy and respect it . |
| 27 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
| 28 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 29 | I sha n't put the next one in the test I do n't think so . |
| 30 | And before they come in the mornings I tidy up , I , well after they 've gone at night |