Example sentences of "in [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain I adjusted the needle . |
| 2 | In vain I sought the ducks penned in safety from the foxes … . |
| 3 | It 's going in Eleven I 'm bid . |
| 4 | They used to come out in threes I think moulds . |
| 5 | ‘ In 1943 I joined Northumberland , New Zealand Shipping Co vessel , and crossed the Atlantic to Panama , through to New Zealand and back again . |
| 6 | In 1971 I was hoping for great things , because the British Open was at Birkdale , my home-course , but Tom could n't handle Birkdale . |
| 7 | Unfortunately in 1971 I was not protected from that most pernicious word by those inverted commas . |
| 8 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 9 | When I first moved to Hackney in London 's East End as a medical student in 1971 I saw the graffito : ‘ HACKNEY — AN ASYLUM WITHOUT WALLS ’ . |
| 10 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 11 | I 'm a transcendentalist in that I think for myself , no one tells me what to do in my career , my training . |
| 12 | It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream . |
| 13 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 14 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 15 | I am employed here as a nurse in the premature baby intensive care unit and I 'm certainly kept very busy , the work often made more difficult but challenging in that I work alongside people from around 30 different countries . |
| 16 | Sub-text : ‘ I 'm in a stronger position in that I can feel sorry for you , and you are vulnerable . |
| 17 | Are n't I playing high status in that I can tell you who you are ? |
| 18 | The Working Party helped me to express my lesbianism in a positive way in that I could come out , and it helped me to deal with the suspicion and fears of colleagues Black and white , gay or straight , male or female . |
| 19 | Therefore , I am in agreement with Mr. Porter in that I believe referees from other rugby nations , such as Fiji , Australia , Argentina etc. , should be selected for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 20 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 21 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 22 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 23 | I 'm not all that sure how desirable a classless society is in that I ca n't visualize any society in the world which is classless . |
| 24 | And I seem to have been fairly successful in that I 've never neither I , nor Father Christmas , has ever been asked for what I would consider to be a greedy , outrageous present ! |
| 25 | And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is . |
| 26 | I take the system further in that I split the text of the letter up into sections pertinent to each problem . |
| 27 | There there was a build up in that I think we we were one of the last towns to have the problem . |
| 28 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 29 | Whether there is anything in that I can not say , but one of the golden rules of banking , ‘ once bitten , twice shy ’ , seems to be waived for Czechoslovaks . |
| 30 | I do n't disagree I mean I I again it 's a key it 's a key element to actually formalizing the training in that I mean , if you 're going to do it properly , it all fits into you know |