Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 2 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I got out in one shot . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 5 | I hurry over in that direction . |
| 6 | ‘ That question 's been going round in my head ever since I woke up in that alley . ’ |
| 7 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 8 | In a subsequent debate on the report on the sixth of November nineteen ninety two , I spelt out in some detail how the government intended to fulfil that commitment and one of the regulations before the house today represents the culmination of our actions to give effect to one of Sir Thomas er Bingham 's recommendations that the existing right in section forty seven of the banking act nineteen eighty seven , for auditors to report relevant information to the bank of England should become a statutory duty . |
| 9 | Yes no I think once I turned round in that way and I would n't |
| 10 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 11 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 12 | One possible reason for its comparative success , and one which I stumbled on in all innocence at that time , was that its subject and setting were limited . |
| 13 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 14 | Then suddenly I got a bit more confidence , I felt better about my weight , my husband encouraged me as I started out in various career directions , and goals actually began to emerge . |
| 15 | I started out in this business not having any concept about what an actor did . |
| 16 | Now I stride out in major events : the London Marathon , the Great North Run , and the Malta , Benidorm , Sheffield and Leeds marathons . |
| 17 | I jogged round in 23.2 seconds , a trifle faster than Simmone Jacobs ran in the women 's event . |
| 18 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 19 | I looked down in some wonderment at the shiny blacktop , therefore , nevertheless noting that unevennesses were already manifesting themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ I bin out in deep snow before you was even thought of . ’ |
| 21 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 22 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 23 | anyway when I come back in one day , she says to me , she says listen to this , a neighbour were sat here |
| 24 | During heat waves , companions walked beside me in shorts and a T-shirt , while I lurched along in two tons of wool , certain in the knowledge that removing the jumper for 30 seconds would result in instant death by exposure . |
| 25 | I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon . |
| 26 | That 's how I ended up in that chair . |
| 27 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 28 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 29 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 30 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |