Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 2 | I 'd , I 'd I 'd got a four year old toddler and a and a eighteen month old crawler when , when I was your age . |
| 3 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 4 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 5 | I had tied a three inch strip of webbing between the shafts , which I used as a harness . |
| 6 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 7 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 8 | I had prepared a 4 foot tank , hoping to house all 30 Victorians together . |
| 9 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 10 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 11 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 12 | If I had read a dozen Somerset Maugham books about colonial clubs in remote settlements , I could n't have bettered my first impression of Tala-Tala 's Union Jack Club . |
| 13 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 14 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 15 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 16 | One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece . |
| 17 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |