Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 2 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 3 | But I hate doing I hate creepy crawlies , I hate spiders and I hate going in the loft . |
| 4 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect to stay in the competition — Derry are favourites but Cup football all about shocks , ’ he warns . |
| 6 | In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat . |
| 7 | Because I , I want to sit in the room where they 're both gon na be facing not sitting like an odd dog right . |
| 8 | Yeah and er , I said to Jane now I said now look before I go to Preston , I want to go in the pub |
| 9 | I want to go in the garden . |
| 10 | I want to take in the scenery . |
| 11 | ‘ I like the freedom of being able to decide , tonight for example , whether I want to stay in the flat or whether I want to go down to Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | I want to pull in the anchor with you and save the whale with you and bear a big child with you and live with you and know that we will never die . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to feed the ducks , and I want to play in the sandpit . |
| 14 | The kind of films I want to make in the future would be totally gay in sensibility , whatever that might mean , but totally about heterosexuals and aiming to seduce the general population . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want to help in the peace movement . ’ |
| 16 | While these days I am deeply engaged in computer-based research , I hope to continue in the future my interests in English grammar , literary discourse analysis , semantics and pragmatics . |
| 17 | I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages . |
| 18 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 19 | ‘ I like to swim in the nude . ’ |
| 20 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 21 | ‘ I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait , ’ Kyffin Williams told Julian Halsby in this special interview for The Artist |
| 22 | I like to lay in the paint with a knife and draw into the wet paint with a brush , especially when working on a portrait . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why I like living in the city . |
| 24 | ‘ I live on Eighth Street and I like walking in the rain . ’ |
| 25 | I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot . |
| 26 | I like shaving in the wardrobe I find it |
| 27 | I like shaving in the shower . |
| 28 | In this respect it resembled another favourite hotel of mine , the Quirinale in Rome , where I like to stay in the room where Ronald Firbank died . |
| 29 | I get recognised in the street . |
| 30 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |