Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 2 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 3 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 4 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 5 | ‘ I got out in one shot . ’ |
| 6 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 7 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 8 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 10 | I hold on with one hand , landing in a fast-moving heap that upsets the sledge 's balance . |
| 11 | Er and I think I came up with six negatives and and one very feeble positive . |
| 12 | ‘ I came in with three A levels , ’ she said , matter of factly . |
| 13 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 14 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 15 | I teed off with 15 clubs , one too many . |
| 16 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 17 | I chickened out after three days and put the lights back on . |
| 18 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 19 | Sometimes I spent up to six hours a day with her , just getting her ‘ streetwise ’ . |
| 20 | I flew over on 6 May . |
| 21 | I started out considering five elements . |
| 22 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 23 | I jogged round in 23.2 seconds , a trifle faster than Simmone Jacobs ran in the women 's event . |
| 24 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |
| 25 | I went down to seven stone something and I looked hellish . ’ |
| 26 | I went in to two corporates yesterday er and erm who are a massive potential for us , right in where we need to be |
| 27 | yo seventeen off , I said , and the order 's mine , then I went in at twenty percent . |
| 28 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
| 29 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 30 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |