Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 3 | in specific terms I ca n't remember , I would have certainly of said that for the year er nineteen eighty eight we should build into our budget an amount , what that amount was I ca n't remember , but er that was , that was never given the go ahead |
| 4 | In some circumstances I would have welcomed such a discussion . |
| 5 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 6 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 7 | ‘ You did once say I was old-fashioned and I suppose in some ways I must be . |
| 8 | I know this may not be popular … in some ways I 'd prefer to drop Strachan … but he keep defying age & playing brilliant ! ! |
| 9 | In English terms I would say that the property that Russell left is worth about ninety to a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 10 | Who knows , in six months I may be dead . |
| 11 | In six weeks I 'll be able to do stuff like table tennis . |
| 12 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 13 | Given that I wish to stay in these waters I must be careful neither to give offence nor to provoke jealousy . ’ |
| 14 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 15 | In these matters I will say what I believe is best and if you find it so difficult to work with me , then write to my father prior . |
| 16 | In later chapters I shall make some comments on the importance of incomes policy in the development of the socialist project . |
| 17 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 18 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 19 | If you 're doing both then that 's your total income and if you did that in three weeks I would think you 'd be very happy with that . |
| 20 | In three days I shall rise again . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In three days I will visit you again . |
| 22 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 23 | I think in all societies I ca n't |
| 24 | In many ways I would prefer to live in one place , but taking old and derelict houses and making them relive again is a source of enjoyment to me . |
| 25 | In many ways I should like to do the same , for there are wonderful stories to be told , and I love storytelling . |
| 26 | In those instances I 'd force myself and in the long run it turned out better . |
| 27 | In my judgment , on the facts as found by the judge , he was entitled to reach the conclusion that consideration existed and in those circumstances I would not disturb that finding . |
| 28 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 29 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 30 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |