Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
2 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
3 | ‘ In my drunken stupor I looked at Sandy and mumbled : ‘ Fancy a wee trip on the water ’ , ’ he recalled . |
4 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
5 | I in my personal opinion I I do n't think it is . |
6 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |
7 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
8 | I walk from the petrol station to the store roughly 14 times a day and if I did n't have a pair of inner soles in my flat shoes I 'd cry ! ’ |
9 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
10 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
11 | In my present job I still try to keep that going . |
12 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
13 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
14 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
15 | ‘ So in my perfect republic it would be simple . |
16 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
17 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
18 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
19 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
20 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
21 | In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through . |
22 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
23 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
24 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
25 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
26 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
27 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
28 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
29 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
30 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |