Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |
| 2 | During my first dinner in a Goan house I was astonished to see the ladies greet each other with kisses on both cheeks . |
| 3 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 4 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 5 | You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean . |
| 6 | She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered . |
| 7 | In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name . |
| 8 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm in a deep hole I dug by being deep ’ ) . |
| 10 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 11 | And in a similar fashion I think it 's also important that we look the , the , move towards G P fundholding . |
| 12 | In a split second I knew what I 'd done . |
| 13 | In a straight fight I was n't going to beat him . |
| 14 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 15 | In a fortunate moment I noticed a sign reading ‘ Jardin de Paris — Restaurant Français ’ , and abandoning Anastasia on a pavement , a procedure to which East Europeans do not seem to take exception , I ventured in to discover whether anyone spoke French . |
| 16 | Rewarding in a financial sense I think you 'll find once you 've heard . |
| 17 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 18 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 19 | Once , in a crowded bar I was forced into conversation with two ladies who were so disappointed that I felt quite guilty . |
| 20 | Suppose that while shopping in a crowded store I become temporarily separated from a friend and in reply to his anxious call shout back " I am here " . |
| 21 | Whilst being very happy in a secretarial role I would like to widen my scope . |
| 22 | I go bananas I go spare I go for you in a big way I go for you with |
| 23 | However , now we have remade that table top and re-finished it in a different way I am much more certain about what had , until now , been an instinctive feeling . |
| 24 | Since the birds were in a cold room I believe the filter matting provided extra protection from the low temperatures . |
| 25 | I mean I , I do n't feel comfortable talking I 'm talking in a whole group I do n't feel quite as comfortable not actually here , but in , in a debate situation talking to say two or three people . |
| 26 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 27 | In a social sense I had . |
| 28 | As we sit to yet another cup of greasy coffee in a steamed-up café I suggest it 's time we got out of all this . |
| 29 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 30 | Likewise , if instead of saying , ‘ there is a patient outside ’ , I could say ( out of role ) , ‘ In a short while I will be a patient coming to the consultant 's office — how do you want me to play the role ? |