Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 32 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 33 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 34 | I asked one evening . |
| 35 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 36 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |
| 37 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 38 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 39 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 40 | Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ? |
| 41 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 42 | I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages . |
| 43 | I read Seventeen magazine . |
| 44 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 45 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 46 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |
| 47 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 48 | I made two attempts . |
| 49 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 50 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 51 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 52 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 53 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 54 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 55 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 56 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |
| 57 | Anyway , in the end I made 1,800 pesos on the funeral . |
| 58 | I mean , okay , Peter give us it on Friday but would n't you have thought , I mean thirty quid |
| 59 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 60 | I mean one dollar — ‘ |