Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Well I 've made a start in my painting it 's
2 In my sleep I had dreamed of a …
3 In my simplicity I duly said the collect , which was listened to with silent interest until the end , when there would be a great burst of laughter , which mystified me .
4 It would have been difficult enough in English to ask questions without appearing to be prying ; in my Greek it was impossible .
5 In my experience they are generally rare fossils in the Palaeozoic , but as so often with echinoderms there are localities where large numbers of specimens can be recovered from a bedding plane or two .
6 THE police tend to get an unfavourable press , though in my experience they have never been anything less than kind , helpful and efficient when I 've needed them most .
7 In my experience they require an opiate as rapidly as possible as many of the arrhythmias can be suppressed simply by relieving the pain .
8 In my experience I was acutely aware that Irish lesbians had been active within the English women 's movement for many years .
9 In my experience I have found exactly the same ; driving is cheaper than rail , even on one 's own and on routes with special rail fares available , like Edinburgh to London .
10 In my experience I c if I do a plan I have n't got enough time to write the essay .
11 I also like the area because of its prehistoric relics , abundance of wildflowers and , on a more mundane level , because in my experience it seems to get more than its fair share of decent weather .
12 Erm in my experience it 's quite normal for erm a period after the close of the enquiry to be erm given to erm the planning authority or authorities to on other matters which are outstanding at the close of the enquiry , whether it 's two weeks , whether it 's whether it 's very very common , it 's it 's reasonable that the authority should have that opportunity to .
13 ‘ Unfortunately , in my experience it 's seldom of long duration . ’
14 Everybody knows how forward they are in this regard in North America , but in my experience it 's just the same in Australia , Argentina , the Soviet Union and elsewhere : for a rain soaked water girdled nation we really do not come very high in the league of comforts and efficiency .
15 In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company .
16 In my experience it is .
17 In my experience it 's a
18 erm We 've got to be very careful about the word ‘ useful ’ , because in my experience it 's perfectly possible for people to know an enormous amount of history and to make terrible mistakes .
19 But I mean , now you see erm I , I 've got to er go to since they closed Central , and I have n't got a car erm so I 'm not going to carry thing , I ca n't I 'm with , with arthritis in my back I ca n't , I ca n't carry really only a very small bag , so this was
20 In my invitation I told him that in Chester we have everything to offer that is best in Britain .
21 The film was called Never Take No for An Answer , but in my ignorance I did n't even know what the question was .
22 Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate .
23 There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age .
24 Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably .
25 Upstairs in my apartment I bought myself a drink .
26 Often in my progress I have had faint glimpses of the Absolute Truth , God , and daily the conviction is growing on me that He alone is real and all else is unreal . ’
27 I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it .
28 ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . )
29 In my memory it is always white … . ’
30 I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether .
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