Example sentences of "i [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 2 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 3 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 4 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 5 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 6 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 7 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 8 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 9 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 10 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 11 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I fought in the Holy Land for the Cross , and in England for Edward against the rebels ; I have founded monasteries , supported Holy Mother Church so God would exalt my family . |
| 13 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 14 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 15 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 16 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 17 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 18 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
| 19 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 20 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 21 | I plug in the short-wave radio and tune it to the radio-microphone , then I leave the receiver on the table and walk out to stick the bug on the inside of the front door . |
| 22 | Sorry , when I say in the main , some of it I might , I just want to clarify with the quality committee as to whether they agree or not . |
| 23 | The first way to do this , as I mentioned in the previous chapter , is to underline the punch with a loud shout . |
| 24 | In terms of other help , as I mentioned in the previous chapter , there is the home help service , and there is also meals-on-wheels . |
| 25 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 26 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 27 | When the truck had dumped me and my kit-bag at the Guard Room and I had a chance to look around me , I spied in the middle distance a cluster of substantial looking buildings . |
| 28 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 29 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |
| 30 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |