Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final stages I attempted to draw together the wide ranging tones and then to punctuate these closer tones with an occasional tonic of colour in the foreground — a turquoise yellow or a red . |
| 2 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 3 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 4 | This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted . |
| 5 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 6 | In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’ |
| 8 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 9 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 10 | The largest report was all of 4 inches by 2 inches in the 6/7 newspapers I went through yesterday morning . |
| 11 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 12 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 13 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 14 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 15 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 17 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 18 | well in the early days I only got er , what was , what was your , yours a quarter horse power motor was n't it ? |
| 19 | In the early months I still had my natural aversion to overcome , before I understood the fundamental strangeness of the process of fruition . |
| 20 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 21 | Changes in conditions , changes in the inanimate forces I have lumped under the general heading of ‘ the weather ’ , are likely to swamp the slow and erratic trends of the arms race , as far as any observer on the ground could be aware . |
| 22 | In the above circumstances I believe you are being paid correctly . |
| 23 | He is not , he says , one who ‘ detracts from the existence or reality of things ’ ; and anyone who thinks otherwise ‘ is very far from understanding what hath been premised in the plainest terms I could think of ’ . |
| 24 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 25 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 26 | In the 27 years I have worked at the airport , sixteen of those in the fire service , I have seen a huge increase in the number of flights . |
| 27 | Like any other parent with a vested interest in the future generations I am very easily persuaded to do my bit for the environment . |
| 28 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 29 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 30 | In the other fields I 've discussed earlier — public speaking appearing on television , staging a special event , holding a conference , you can ( but you should n't ) kid yourself that they went better than they really did . |