Example sentences of "in [adj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain I sought the ducks penned in safety from the foxes … . |
| 2 | In vain I adjusted the needle . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1943 I joined Northumberland , New Zealand Shipping Co vessel , and crossed the Atlantic to Panama , through to New Zealand and back again . |
| 4 | When I first moved to Hackney in London 's East End as a medical student in 1971 I saw the graffito : ‘ HACKNEY — AN ASYLUM WITHOUT WALLS ’ . |
| 5 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 6 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 7 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 8 | I just chucked everything in that I had , did it , in the box and we were out before seven . |
| 9 | In 1986 I noticed that the Americans and Italians were wearing extremely skintight shorts , and while there was no chance I was going to wear those , they did set my imagination in motion . |
| 10 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 11 | In 1986 I discovered that low fat eating led to a leaner body . |
| 12 | In 1986 I wrote an article for the London Arts Festival on C. S. Lewis and The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe . |
| 13 | to my senior command and in 1986 I informed my chief officers of the acceptance of my Ph.D . |
| 14 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 15 | In 1980 I got chatting to Stan Francourt , the caddie who was with me when I had the accident in 1973 . |
| 16 | Editor , — In 1980 I took out a BMA-BUPA policy for myself , my wife , and my daughter . |
| 17 | ‘ In 1980 I moved back to LA from Mammoth Mountain ski resort and started my business , Stussy Surfboards . |
| 18 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 19 | I says I dare n't fancy going out in this I went upstairs and er , it 's always the same in n it ? |
| 20 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 21 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
| 22 | ‘ American blues artists did n't tour Australia back then ; it was only when I visited London in 1972 I saw BB King — that justtook me apart . |
| 23 | In 1972 I wrote a paper with Brandon Carter and an American colleague , Jim Bardeen , in which we pointed out that although there were many similarities between entropy and the area of the event horizon , there was this apparently fatal difficulty . |
| 24 | In 1972 I went off to university were I could find no handle on art history until I read Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists ? and discovered that research could replace airy-fairy ‘ lack of genius ’ answers with concrete ‘ lack of education ’ answers . |
| 25 | In 1972 I undertook my first race since leaving school 35 years earlier and managed 13.3 seconds for the 100m , ending last in the O50 final and lame in both hamstrings . |
| 26 | In 1972 I suggested a fresh categorization of the processes involved to take into account an additional meaning of ‘ propagate ’ ; namely to rear to sexual maturity . |
| 27 | On leaving GLF in 1972 I did n't realize that I was now a separatist ; those of us who were did n't use the word . |
| 28 | In 1985 I received letters from several women who described themselves as ‘ former secretaries ’ for Proctor and Gamble . |
| 29 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 30 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |