Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.

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1 I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in .
2 In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ .
3 Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all .
4 I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words .
5 I ca n't afford to stay in this awful dump I 'm in for long . ’
6 To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing .
7 In this final section I would like to attempt to answer some of the questions raised in the introduction , using the evidence of teachers ' views expressed in the survey to support my argument .
8 Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project .
9 They have white filters , and I am concerned lest in this poor light I should mistakenly set fire to the wrong end .
10 Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas .
11 Now in this first session I really want to look at the way that er er financial planning will affect you once you , once you retire , it may be that 's the sort of area you 've not looked at in detail .
12 In this First Article I want to make two points .
13 In this first article I will retrace my first steps to Rennes-le-Chateau and the beginning of the mystery .
14 The contributors will largely be from the educational faculty at the University , and in this first programme I have with me Professor Tony Becher , who is Chairman of the Education Area .
15 In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole .
16 In this same period I saw many hundreds of users who never featured in the arrest tables and took many to hospital .
17 In this same room I once helped a pretty young woman who came in with cut and bleeding feet , who gave birth to a boy and then died . ’
18 In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement .
19 After several weeks in this empty terrain I began to reassess , or at least seriously question , the very nature of landscape painting of the usual sort where every prospect pleases .
20 It was then an overgrown jungle , swamp-ridden and mosquito-infested , but in this unlikely environment I saw my dream . ’
21 In this concluding section I would like to consider , specifically in relation to the peace-tax issue , what the prospects of such a strategy might be , in the light of experience gained elsewhere in these other fields .
22 In this concluding section I shall try to pull together the preceding discussions of the theory , practice , and policy relating to tacit collusion .
23 And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so
24 Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment .
25 In this little thing I saw three truths .
26 In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay .
27 In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves .
28 All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’
29 Now in this particular case I 'm using a tap funnel Tap funnel just as it 's it 's Erm the concentrated acid you do n't just sort of pour it in and run away and leave it to it .
30 yes I see , I think er unfortunately doctor I in this particular case I ought to make an order for certificate for counsel erm in the current , in respect of the costs incurred below on the thirteenth of August seems to me do er the proper kind of case in which to instruct counsel .
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