Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village . |
| 2 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 3 | But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 5 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 6 | I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel . |
| 7 | Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure . |
| 8 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 9 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 10 | As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning . |
| 11 | But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue . |
| 12 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 13 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 14 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 15 | ‘ I sit there in the laboratory , ’ says Phil , ‘ trying to think how people go , and I ca n't remember . |
| 16 | And he was n't in today I mean came into work and I passed out in the . . |
| 17 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
| 18 | I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ? |
| 19 | Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning . |
| 20 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 21 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
| 22 | So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef ! |
| 23 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 24 | My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays . |
| 25 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 26 | Is your memory completely addled , or am I caught up in the middle of a prize piece of double-dealing ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ I say later in the kitchen . |
| 28 | I say surprisingly in the case of Christian feminists because it is so clear to me that women , or the feminine , can never hold an equivalent place to male figures or motifs within what is a deeply masculine religion . |
| 29 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 30 | Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise . |