Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’ |
| 4 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 5 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 6 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 9 | So why do I want to fall in love again ? |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ? |
| 12 | I mean to live in England and be a Master of Hounds , not a rotten little king of a rotten little country . |
| 13 | I mean bearing in mind that all the resources were broken down presumably the were separate gangs we could n't really make |
| 14 | Anyway , the poi , the other thing is erm then obviously this re , concerns really you know , you two at the moment , but , players for next year , I mean bearing in mind we are gon na lose a few . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well yeah I mean bear in mind bear in mind you 've got a week 's notice to put one together . |
| 18 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 19 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 20 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 21 | That 's what I intend to use in the eh . |
| 22 | ‘ I intend to stay in control — and I will make my own decisions all the way . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I like politics , I intend to stay in it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That is what I intend doing in India , and I think it can work . ’ |
| 25 | For 13 hours I lay shivering in my inadequate bag , drifting in and out of sleep . |
| 26 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 27 | I sit shivering in the armchair in this first-floor flat in Deptford , and I feel I 'm still trapped in a cupboard , listening for strange noises , till I realize they are the last images of the dream , slipping away like ghost bodies melting on the floor . |
| 28 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 29 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 30 | I got injured in this game as well . |