Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason I became involved in birds of prey was to teach them to hunt for me — and of course for themselves — so a goshawk is a must for the near future . |
| 2 | Before I became involved in business , I really had very few goals — with the result that I did n't get very far . |
| 3 | In leaving home I became involved in student union politics , particularly round the issue of overseas students . |
| 4 | Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling . |
| 5 | Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling . |
| 6 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 7 | I became old in instants and everything today is bland and lucid . |
| 8 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 9 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 10 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 11 | My hon. Friend will also know that as part of ’ Defence for the 90s ’ we are reviewing the scope of naval support , although as I made clear in July , there will be a continuing naval presence at Portland . |
| 12 | As I made clear in July and as the Lord Chancellor made clear , the provision of green form legal aid will be withdrawn when other services are available , but not until then . |
| 13 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 14 | At night when I lay awake in bed , vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending stories … ’ |
| 15 | I got married in Newbridge just a a little village on the Currane . |
| 16 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 17 | Hamilton and I grow rich in gold . |
| 18 | With only one to go , I asked the doctor from Cairo if he 'd like a dekko down the eyepiece , but he declined , which I found surprising in view of the scarcity of polyps in Egypt . |
| 19 | Would n't I fall asleep in class tomorrow ? |
| 20 | That night I lie awake in bed for hours , thinking about this . |
| 21 | Now I get involved in acquisitions . ’ |
| 22 | Butterflies possess idiosyncrasies that I find curious in creatures with the minimum of brain-cells . |
| 23 | this year and if Russell done that to me now I feel embarrassed in front of my mother , now , and then I 've been married |
| 24 | That 's one thing I wish I looked good in sports cl Sara looks good in sports clothes . |
| 25 | Usually I keep quiet in case people think I 'm crazy . |
| 26 | I mean , OK I went mad in Barbados or whatever and the rest of it , but the rest of the band are like , ‘ Oh , X went mad , now he 's back to normal , it 's sweet . ’ |
| 27 | It would be very easy to put a very full life together with that , together with everything I have going in Baltimore . |
| 28 | After she 'd left the room I sat still in bed for a while , thinking it really was n't so funny after all . |
| 29 | But when I reached the great stone columns of the main gate , I stood still in horror . |
| 30 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |