Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 2 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 3 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 4 | I told him in great detail . |
| 5 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 6 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 7 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 8 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 9 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 10 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 11 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 12 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 13 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 14 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 15 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 16 | well I 've never got any , I saw it in this shop |
| 17 | I put her in cold water till the ambulance came , but I did n't know what else to do ! ’ |
| 18 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 19 | So I knitted it in double jacquard . |
| 20 | I discussed them in some detail in the chapter on event planning . |
| 21 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 22 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 23 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
| 24 | I shot them in cold blood and I enjoyed every minute of it … |
| 25 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |