Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] 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 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ When I have evenings off , I tend to stay in the club lurking in the shadows reading : I am disinclined to meet friends . |
| 4 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 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 | Oh yeah , well that was where I learnt to swim in the canal on Road , er it 's the bridge that goes over Lane , near , near . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was determined to get him , and must have been concentrating so intently on his movements that , like a fool , I forgot to look in the mirror until it was too late . |
| 19 | ‘ I forgot to plug in the timer . ’ |
| 20 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 21 | Not until he was dead did I dare to go in the direction I wanted . |
| 22 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 23 | ‘ I like to swim in the nude . ’ |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them . |
| 29 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |
| 30 | This is what I try to do in the Library , and I 've had very good feedback from outside users . |