Example sentences of "in the [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 2 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 3 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 4 | In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept . |
| 5 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
| 6 | In the first I shall review activity within the Engineering Branch before I took up my post within the MOD . |
| 7 | The way it gets most of its growth in the first I mean , |
| 8 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 9 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 10 | And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’ |
| 11 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 12 | Someone was , and probably is , with me , helping me in the little I am trying to do . |
| 13 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 14 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |
| 15 | As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse : |
| 16 | Well the earlier I go in the quicker I 'm home . |