Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 2 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 3 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
| 4 | The second general conception of law I introduced in the last chapter , legal pragmatism , holds that people are never entitled to anything but the judicial decision that is , all things considered , best for the community as a whole , without regard to any past political decision . |
| 5 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 6 | There 's a pen I think in the white box behind you . |
| 7 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ I replied nervously , ‘ This is some of the stuff I did in the early days , it 's all medical and rather boring . |
| 9 | At night I slept in the big kitchen on the brown leatherette bed settee , and my parents slept in the box room . |
| 10 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 11 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 12 | ‘ Alec , ’ he had blubbered , pawing at his sleeve , ‘ yer the only true friend I have in the whole wide world . |
| 13 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 14 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 15 | Outside Lisabeth 's door I said in a loud voice , as if talking to someone : ‘ That 's the trouble , you just ca n't get the staff these days … ’ |
| 16 | After writing the story and filing it by telegraph I revelled in a hot bath , a good dinner , and a warm bed as the guest of the Palliser Hotel . |
| 17 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 18 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 19 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 20 | It 's against the system in Continental Europe , it 's against the system I saw in the occupied West Bank when I went out with the police last year and what I saw in South Africa a fortnight ago when I went out w with the police there i i i into the shanty towns and so on . |
| 21 | To my everlasting surprise I stayed in the main presenter 's chair — even though the programme 's title changed . |
| 22 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 23 | I was invited to attend as a ‘ participating observer ’ and the time I spent in the Social Studies group , I remember as one of the most exciting and productive in my educational experience , marred only by the fact that the conference had to end a little early because the money ran out . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |
| 25 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 26 | But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life . |
| 27 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |