Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I am sending fifteen thousand instructions per second . ’ |
2 | Every hour , I 'm going six hundred miles an hour faster |
3 | Lot number forty one , the brass sticks there we are , we 've got one of them showing for you just one of them showing , I 've got a hundred and fifty offered for it , one fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty one ninety , two hundred I 'm bid I 'm offered two hundred pounds , anybody else at two hundred and selling at two hundred , two twenty , two forty going on ? |
4 | Lot number one three three one three three is the sword rack there 's the sword rack showing for two hundred pounds at two hun two twenty , two forty , two sixty , two eighty , three hundred bid I 'm offered three hundred pounds and ta I shall take it at three hundred pounds , anybody else ? |
5 | Well I was thinking that fifty pounds off the gas board . |
6 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
7 | Well when I left there , and joined the army , I was getting twenty seven shillings a week . |
8 | ‘ Oh well , you see , the truth of the matter is that dragons have never existed as you ( and , until I was poisoned some three months ago , I ) understand existence . |
9 | ‘ I was shown these two kids in a very pitiful state and I just could n't do nothing . ’ |