Example sentences of "[vb past] i [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 2 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 3 | ‘ That made me six foot seven inches tall . ’ |
| 4 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 5 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
| 6 | which needs to be deducted from the hundred and ten point two seven which gives you a re a possible alloca a possible amount of land to come forward in the structure plan period of seventy seven point six seven , off which to make the figures round properly you need to take another ten , for the retail element if that became I five land which could theoretically give you a figure of sixty seven point six seven . |
| 7 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 8 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
| 9 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 10 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 11 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 12 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 13 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 14 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 15 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 16 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 17 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 18 | And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year . |
| 19 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 20 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 21 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 22 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 23 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 24 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 25 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 26 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 28 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 29 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 30 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |