Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 2 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 3 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 4 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 5 | I rarely drink in the week , and I 've never acquired a taste for wine . |
| 6 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 7 | ‘ The books I most admire in the European tradition are , ’ he says , ‘ 19th century novels by the great Russian writers and by English writers like Jane Austen and George Eliot . |
| 8 | ‘ Up until then my longest run in the side was one game ! |
| 9 | I fundamentally believe in Britain as a part of Europe . |
| 10 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 11 | ‘ I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary . |
| 12 | A ‘ cabbage ’ housewife is someone entirely immersed in domestic affairs , a colourless personality , a drab , uninteresting automaton . |
| 13 | I better go in a minute . |
| 14 | Suppose I better start in a minute , had n't I really ? |
| 15 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 16 | Du n no yet , I really do n't know , erm well I only popped in Sundays , I 've been going to spend the week , er the other half and me ended up in Littlehampton and Arronale for the day . |
| 17 | well I only lived in London for about six months . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 20 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 21 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
| 22 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 23 | ‘ But I only work in my studio , ’ Parks replied . |
| 24 | I only work in metal ; steel and occasionally alluminium . |
| 25 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 26 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 27 | I said it will be nice company and so she said er , you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before as I only live in Manchester so she t well the two of us went together . |
| 28 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 29 | ‘ I only stayed in the hall for a couple of seconds . |
| 30 | I only appear in court when other people have been unjustly treated . |