Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got some wonderful friends , but I do n't want to get too close to anybody in case they stop me eating . |
| 2 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 3 | Sometimes I 'm really embarrassed about eating in front of people , in case they think I 'm greedy or fat . |
| 4 | In case one broke I suppose . |
| 5 | ‘ Only to cover my own insecurity in case you rejected me once again . ’ |
| 6 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
| 7 | That 's not me by the way in case you thought I was phoning myself it 's not me . |
| 8 | I dared not say a word in case you sent me packing for good . ’ |
| 9 | In case you think I am exaggerating I will try to put down on the page the conversation we held this morning , he in his warm office with his eighteenth century paperweight and leggy shit of a secretary and I in a dirty glass-doored box that might have been entered in an exhibition of unusual refrigerators . |
| 10 | There 's humour and tensions , the blossoming masculine friendship and those wonderful , surprising moments at which Forsyth excels ( and which , in case you think I 'm being coy , seldom translate from screen ) . |
| 11 | In case you think I eat a lot I 'll reel you my standard excuse , which is that I 'm trying to put on weight for rugby . |
| 12 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 13 | Thick eyeliner on the top of my eyes , I do n't wear eyeliner on the bottom just in case you think I 'm a tart ! |
| 14 | If I was setting an exam paper for summer it would be something I would think about putting in not that I am setting it in case you think I had n't . |
| 15 | Now just in case you think I 'm sinking into the role of a self-righteous preacher , who enjoys telling other people off about their sins , so that he does n't have to bother about his own , |
| 16 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 17 | But as always I was wary of contradicting him , not wanting to antagonize him by even the slightest show of disagreement in case he left me . |
| 18 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 19 | I was afraid to ask in case she said I was n't to come any more . |
| 20 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 21 | She said , by the shape of me she wanted to ask me , but she did n't want to in case she offended me . |
| 22 | You probably all knew this … but just in case I thought I 'd let you know . |
| 23 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 25 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 26 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 27 | it 's , in biology what got me , when I did it , it 's , it 's , yeah |
| 28 | During all the years in television I suppose I 've done thousands of interviews . |
| 29 | By means of the Alexander Technique I have acquired an awareness of where my body is in space which means I am now able to control my muscle tension by means of my brain ; this is essential if I was ever to maintain a posture without straining my body unconsciously . |
| 30 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |