Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , well , she said , I asked you to take four people home and you said , No I 'm sorry . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 3 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 4 | The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me . |
| 5 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 6 | So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day . |
| 7 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 8 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 9 | You paint a picture like that Mars now I saw you do one time , empty with loneliness . |
| 10 | I thought you meant one flower but I did n't know there was four of them there . |
| 11 | I thought you got three quid . |
| 12 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 13 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 14 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 15 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 16 | As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm . |
| 17 | I said I had three kids and I could |
| 18 | I said you put one lot of checks in here and I 'll put a lot of checks in the other . |
| 19 | I had I had three checks , thyroid |
| 20 | Although I was sympathetic , I explained we had two children and a large dog and simply did n't have room for him . |
| 21 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 22 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |