Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them are missing six years and their families do not know if they are alive . ’
2 At last I am holding six beautiful tickets , three for reservations , all meticulously written on .
3 If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment .
4 I am using two 80W mercury vapour lights , from when my tank was planted .
5 I am using two 36″ tubes .
6 But my contacts in the trade — I am using three , all very discreet and understanding men — tell me the number of stones involved is very substantial .
7 If , on the other hand , I am taking six ferrets then I need two boxes — one for four as already described and another for the remaining two animals .
8 I am taking four days off to spend with my wife and young baby , ’ he said .
9 I am taking one final bit of advice before I bat it back to Noel Wilson in the Computing Service , and I imagine we will have reached some conclusion to the game before the end of June .
10 Or else — more generously — I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son .
11 I feel that I should face up to this problem , now that I am nearing 40 and can no longer hope to ‘ grow out of it ’ .
12 By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects .
13 Now two months later I am teaching six classes a week , three movement and three breathing movement , and could n't be happier .
14 I am sending fifteen thousand instructions per second . ’
15 That is despite the fact that I am paying hundreds of pounds a year for the privilege of a so-called collection service .
16 I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’
17 Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea .
18 ( What justifies me in writing 20,002 after 20,000 when I am adding 2 ?
19 I am following two women , heavy bundles on their backs .
20 And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir .
21 Provided I am focused 100 per cent , I will win it .
22 Every minute , say , I am delivered one of these standard electrons .
23 If so , I 'm meeting two girls at a cop-shop on the corner of Green Street and there 's a pub next to it called the Wagon & Horses .
24 I 'm seeking two British agents who were last heard of months ago . ’
25 Maggie was stabbing her finger at the different plates on the table , and her aunt wagged her head and pursed her lips before she said , flatly , ‘ I 'm courting one of the airmen ; he comes to Donald 's farm . ’
26 ‘ And this week [ early September ] I 'm brewing 40 barrels .
27 I always wore thirty five , thirty five and a half , thirty six , now I 'm wearing thirty seven .
28 Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because
29 I 'm turned fifteen , Daddy ’ — her voice trembling now — ‘ I 'm not a child any longer .
30 I 'm to take one 10mg tablet daily for ten days , starting tomorrow , and the lumps on my body should begin to subside .
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