Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 2 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 3 | ‘ I only stayed in the hall for a couple of seconds . |
| 4 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 5 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 6 | I just looked in the window then went away . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just looked in the larder and I 've only got four . |
| 8 | I just hid in the corner until the bizzies had gone . |
| 9 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |
| 10 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I just packed in the cycling eight years back , ’ says Pat senior , a contemporary of local stars such as Davy Kane and Maurice Foster . |
| 12 | They do n't always dress up of course but I soon got in the habit by trying on a Tommy Cooper-styled fez . |
| 13 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 14 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 15 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 16 | Far worse than anything I ever met in the south . |
| 17 | Every skill I ever learned in the Art of Coarse Acting I learned in that sweaty cloakroom before Double Hockey . |
| 18 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 19 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 20 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 21 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 22 | I even advertised in the art magazines . |
| 23 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 24 | Annoyingly , I have just discovered ( on my ‘ Fantasy League ’ mail being sent back to me ) that every single pounds sign that I lovingly put in the mail has been intpreted by the damn stupid mail program as ‘ stlg ’ or ‘ u ’ , and I 'm sure there will be plenty of other variations . |
| 25 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 26 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 27 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 28 | I used to wrestle with my conscience as to whether I should ask Francis Bacon , but I never did in the end . |
| 29 | A man I recently stopped in the centre of Manchester to ask if he believed in extraterrestrials replied ‘ What ? ’ then ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ and then ‘ Please would you come back to my flat to mend my faulty radio ? ’ |