Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun] [pron] " 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 Will I know anyone in my former life whom I know in my present one ?
8 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 .
9 I have a 1982 Range Rover engine with Stromberg CD 175 carbs in my 1976 lightweight which I run on LPG or petrol .
10 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 ! ’
11 In my respectful submission there could be A , no question that the jury would be discharged and B , in the submission er some er judicial displeasure of an experienced police officer volunteering what any police officer must know is A inadmissible and B not an answer to the question .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 In my present job I still try to keep that going .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Not that in my young days there were never some wild moments .
18 It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that .
19 ‘ So in my perfect republic it would be simple .
20 In my second thoughts my aims remain the same , but are more thoroughly developed : and all these grovelling references to ‘ great ’ historians and their ‘ brilliant ’ works have been extirpated .
21 This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’
22 In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing .
23 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 .
24 Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown .
25 In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too .
26 In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through .
27 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 ) .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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