Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 2 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 3 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 4 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 5 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 6 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 7 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 8 | I got clipped in an air strike on the first day . |
| 9 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 10 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 11 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 12 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 13 | I want to lie in a sunny green field . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to live in a small village. , |
| 15 | ‘ I want to live in a big house , with lots of rooms . ’ |
| 16 | I feel I can encapsulate the feeling in the music and then say what I want to say in a direct manner . |
| 17 | ‘ Hmm , maybe , ’ replied Rachel thoughtfully , then , changing the subject , she said , ‘ I think I 'll go to lunch now , then later this afternoon I want to get in a quick swim . ’ |
| 18 | God , when things like that happen I just feel like shouting I Want To Work in a very loud voice . |
| 19 | I want to buy in a minute |
| 20 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 21 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 22 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 23 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 24 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 25 | Ideology and all , can I cripple my five-year-old 's creativity at the appalling government school because I opted to work in a backward area ? |
| 26 | How many contracts am I going to get in a year ? |
| 27 | I hated sitting in a classroom all day . |
| 28 | He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose . |
| 29 | As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God . |
| 30 | I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford . |