Example sentences of "i [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd say oh yes , you know but , still could n't get me to go in the Guild and er , it was so strange that the , I ca n't remember , I think I 've been in the Guild about twenty-five years so you 'll have to do your own little sum . |
| 3 | Well do you want me to go in the cellar see what we 've got ? |
| 4 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 5 | He waves me to sit in the chair and I do , yawning . |
| 6 | Maggie tells me to wait in the car . |
| 7 | " When you did me the honour of appointing me to the Mastership of Stockport School I was led to suppose that the Income , inclusive of Ten Pounds paid by your Worshipful Company , amounted to nearly Three Hundred Pounds per annum , and from an Enquiry , however , during my Residence here , I have had the Mortification to find that the whole Salary was not more than £25 10 10½d , so that it was impossible for me to remain in the Situation without a Prospect of Church Preferment in the Neighbourhood , which I have no reason to hope for . |
| 8 | Anyway , I 've always had this real fear of me appearing in the Mail On Sunday with my eyes shut and looking pissed , with some caption underneath saying ‘ Whose beer is it anyway ? ’ or ‘ Have I got booze for you ’ . ’ |
| 9 | And I have n't come across any notes from me to me , so obviously I 'm not going to go back into the past and leave anything for me to discover in the future , which is the present . |
| 10 | Long-focus shots of me groping in the dark , or will it be more close-ups of my stupidity ? ’ |
| 11 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 12 | Still , far be it from me to stand in the way of close international relations … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Far be it from me to stand in the path of true love , ’ he said lightly . |
| 14 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 15 | I hide in the bedroom , pretending to work on my lines . |
| 16 | I asked in the beginning . |
| 17 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 18 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 19 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 20 | yeah , I made in the West Chest , Cheshire a |
| 21 | My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function . |
| 22 | I 'll play the secret tape I made in the orchard |
| 23 | I can tell you , Donald , it was a very unpleasant experience , particularly as I fainted in the street just as the thief disappeared . |
| 24 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 25 | In February 1983 I announced in the House of Commons that health authorities should put their ancillary services out to tender to see whether they would get best value from private or in-house organizations . |
| 26 | I announced in the House on 26 November my plans for recurrent and capital expenditure on grant-aided colleges . |
| 27 | I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you . |
| 28 | Why do you think , I mean in the fight did n't he . |
| 29 | I mean in the hay trade , there was really a knack in it . |
| 30 | So I mean in the wash |