Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ . |
| 2 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 3 | Clare Lawrence ( Mrs Hatcher ) writes , ‘ Since qualifying as a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial work in private practice I worked in industry 1986- 8 as a Legal Director of Bricom plc . |
| 4 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 5 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
| 6 | And in that way I felt that I was closer to people . |
| 7 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 8 | ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 9 | In that case I found questions raised which go to two major issues . |
| 10 | Since the point has now been taken that in my judgment in that case I did not support that particular passage from the Master of the Rolls ' judgment , I should state that the reason was because I did not find it necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of that case . |
| 11 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 12 | In that age I learned that " confession " does n't ease the soul , but challenges it . |
| 13 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |
| 14 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 15 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 16 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
| 17 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 18 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 19 | One very extensive class is er is a calcium activated potassium channel , where calcium 's now activating from the inside as we 've already seen in that example I showed you early on . |
| 20 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 21 | No I did n't , luckily , erm my mother 's family , probably the men in that family I had the influence o of of those men and I think that helped a lot . |
| 22 | And in that breath I thought how like Mum he sounded . |
| 23 | In that chapter I treated the habituation experiment as a form of recognition memory task in which subjects compare current sensory input with representations of previous inputs . |
| 24 | In one tiny school in rural Bangladesh I saw the children practising their numbers on cut pieces of banana leaf . |
| 25 | In due course I left Varndean and went to do business studies at Sussex University . |
| 26 | But in due course I discovered that the local historian had done very little actual firsthand gathering of data himself : he was a wealthy man and had employed a number of impecunious schoolteachers to be his ‘ research assistants ’ . |
| 27 | Only his politics are bad , about which in due course I did ‘ warn ’ . |
| 28 | Mind you , in another way I did n't want to get arrested . |
| 29 | Earlier in this tome I recalled his experiment with target finding , and remember the dateline — June 1940 , attacking a target near Rotterdam . |
| 30 | In this case I chose a mount measuring approximately 17. 5cm ( 7in ) square , with a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) diameter aperture . |