Example sentences of "i [verb] [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 well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what
3 Cos I mean we had two crap years had n't we , well .
4 Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit .
5 But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years
6 Here all up here , here in my arms I mean I had seven week physiotherapy on this arm , it 's
7 I mean you said two years later change .
8 I mean you pay seventy P to go in anyway
9 I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do .
10 This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession .
11 The artist who did my album cover used an airbrush and I got him to do three guitars for me .
12 Almost , and as I say we do fourteen litre and ten litre engines .
13 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
14 Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm .
15 If you get an opportunity to visit the Caymans , I suggest you visit Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman .
16 ‘ This weekend I want you to design three grades of house — for a labourer , for a mechanic , and for an overseer .
17 But I want you to remember one thing — her birth . ’
18 So we 'll have a coffee break and then what I want you to do when you come back is I 'll give you an objective for the talk that you 're going to give based on that you 've just done and then I want you to select three themes and three sub-themes that will support the objective that you 'll then be able to use .
19 In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well .
20 I let him have two rounds in the top of the head , just to be social .
21 and I let her have two loans
22 So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day .
23 I seen you dance one time .
24 I know we had one lady erm lived underneath us and she was really very nervous and you know erm hardly came out of her flat at all .
25 Well I know I went four years running
26 And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know .
27 And I remember we had two men once , one used to keep his hand very very tight , squeeze it hard and the other used to make a very big , loose , untidy , whiskery sort of a rope .
28 I know one fellow called Ashworth , he were bit of a coal merchant , I remember him shouting one day across to somebody , ‘ I backed a winner . ’
29 I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’
30 I remember I got two shillings ( ten pence ) for every neck I put right .
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