Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 Nowadays the attitude seems totally the opposite ; the modern-day prop appears to say : ‘ I may go down in the scrummage , but I will never go back ’ .
2 It was merely a figure of speech ; you need have no fear that I 'll creep along in the early hours to take advantage of your defenceless body . ’
3 I know I 'll wake up in the morning and think this did n't really happen , but I am thrilled to bits . ’
4 If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life .
5 I 'll go over in the spring . ’
6 I just go to bed at night and hope for a miracle that I 'll get up in the morning
7 If I if I do n't know the answer I 'll find out in the interim period and let you know at the end of the session .
8 Well I 'll come down in the morning , I 've got the yellow car and start again
9 Forty minutes of temptation was as long as I could last out in the cold , biting wind but an invigorating walk in such conditions has to be good for you .
10 Well I could come along in the evening perhaps .
11 Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her .
12 I 'd wake up in the morning and.find a line of girls outside my front door .
13 I 'd wake up in the mornings , unable to face another day on that film .
14 Sometimes I 'd wake up in the middle of the night , hearing music in my dreams , and I 'd look down out of the bedroom window .
15 Sometimes , nights on the farm , I 'd sit out in the grass with Auntie Muriel and her guitar .
16 If I did leave it , I 'd stay up in the evening to do it , it 'd be on my conscience …
17 More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . )
18 Occasionally I 'd get up in the morning and there he 'd be in the kitchen , eating furiously , as if he did n't know where his next grub was coming from , as if each day was an adventure that could end anywhere .
19 I 'd get up in the morning I 'd have my two pieces of wholemeal bread toasted with a scraping of marmalade on , right , and my butter cos I like that .
20 If the whole planet was one enormous Regent 's Park , I 'd come down in the zoo car park . ’
21 And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see .
22 In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire .
23 I used to mess about in the third and fourth forms , but now I do n't …
24 I used to do that , I used to get up in the morning and they were fucking gone , she had them on her fucking arse .
25 involve me I used to get out in the morning , get up in the morning and be down there at six , see how many ships and see how many what I want , so many dockers on each ship , sometimes they 'd want say six , sometimes eight .
26 At times I would wake up in the night , streaming with sweat , from a nightmare in which I relived that terrifying night in Valladolid .
27 When we took the step we did last May , we did n't desert the Tory Party , we rebelled against it and I for one said that I would go back in the fullness of time , I just hoped I could go back with something to show for it .
28 On the three mornings each week when we were n't due to train , Graham and I would get up in the cool sun of early morning at seven and play either golf or tennis .
29 I would get up in the morning , step out of my caravan , face the ocean and do my exercises , followed by my ritual routine .
30 I would lie out in the midday sun and plaster myself in baby oil ! ’
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