Example sentences of "in what i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 2 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 3 | I turned up dressed in what I thought were my best clothes — a corduroy suit from Take Six with Oxford bags à la Trevor Eve in Shabby Tiger which was on TV at the time Both of which were quite cool things to wear then . |
| 4 | I feel most comfortable in what I call my ‘ hang out ’ clothes : jeans , T-shirts , sloppy sweaters and so on . |
| 5 | I 'm surprised that such hedonistic , empty headed opinions should find a place in what I have always regarded as a serious , intelligent newspaper . |
| 6 | If I end up back there , she might just be interested enough in what I got to say to do some investigating of her own . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 8 | In what I hope was a rare lapse into intolerance , I asked the reporter next to me : ‘ Does that little sod always talk like that ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you not think that our women readers will be interested in what I have written ? ’ |
| 10 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 11 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's extremely clever , very kind and supportive and always interested in what I 'm doing . |
| 13 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 14 | In Diagram 2 , the first group would work in what I have labelled ‘ Internal Library and Information Centres ’ , the second in the ‘ External Library and Information Centres ’ . |
| 15 | So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . |
| 16 | Not for a moment do I want you to believe unthinkingly in what I say . |
| 17 | His blind spots tend to be Bartók and Stravinsky — ‘ especially when he is in what I call his ‘ wrong note ’ mode , like in the ‘ Pulcinella ’ Gavotte where he is deliberately a bar out with his ‘ Alberti bass ’ . |
| 18 | When I first became involved in what I suppose can be called the politics of conservation , I was swift to argue that farmers are the essential inhabitants of the countryside , and not least of the most beautiful parts of the countryside . |
| 19 | ‘ You are interested in what I find . |
| 20 | If you thought you detected ‘ racism ’ in what I wrote , none was intended . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I was wrong in what I then did . |
| 22 | Everything was subject to a harsh , hard and broken edge which intruded in what I felt to be a very unmusical fashion . |
| 23 | And , to be honest , the motivation was gained from the reaction of friends and people who came along to the gigs , because I do n't always have a lot of confidence in what I do . |
| 24 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe in what I can see , ’ he replied . |
| 26 | ‘ I believe in what I can hear . |
| 27 | I said , in what I hoped was a neutral tone . |
| 28 | Sinclair , for example , is in no doubt that recent developments in what I have called token description require a radical revision of principles of descriptive procedure in general , and have profound implications for language pedagogy in particular : |
| 29 | Knowing when someone loses interest in what I say and responding appropriately |
| 30 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |