Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it .
2 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
3 I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone .
4 These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter .
5 I said yes , but I do n't think it was actually Jason Donovan , oh it was , yes , it was Jason Donovan and I 've got the paper all along , I give up in the end .
6 Half the decisions I read about in the newspapers . ’
7 I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization .
8 I stand up in the entrance of my bower , still in shadow .
9 I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep .
10 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 .
11 I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings .
12 ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us .
13 I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it .
14 I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver .
15 Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning .
16 As long as I get up in the morning .
17 I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly .
18 There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones .
19 The only thing they do n't ask is what time I get up in the morning and what time I go to bed at night .
20 I get up in the morning , first thing I do is light a cigarette .
21 yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting .
22 Yes , I believe in Jesus , but sometimes I wake up in the night just petrified . ’
23 I get told off by my girlfriend because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I say is , ‘ Flippin' heck , have you sent those newsletters off yet ? . ’
24 ‘ I can give it up , ’ he said in 1987 , ‘ but when I wake up in the morning , I actually think about drink .
25 ‘ When I wake up in the morning I 've just got to have a packet , ’ she says .
26 Of course , they did not and now when I wake up in the morning and thank God that I 'm a lesbian , I remember to thank myself as well .
27 I wake up in the morning soaked .
28 ‘ When I wake up in the middle of the night and find a strange man on my boat — ’
29 I wake up in the night — and always , its music or love : you ca n't imagine your life without them . ’
30 it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold
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