Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) . |
| 2 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 3 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 4 | I got a two litre G L. |
| 5 | I I got a twelve month ban anyway . |
| 6 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
| 7 | ‘ I think he must have taken one because two days later I found a five pound note in the box . |
| 8 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's under the arch and through the saucepans , ’ I told a million shoppers who wanted the ladies — or at least I think that 's where it was . |
| 10 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 11 | Did I mention , I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic ? |
| 12 | Then I retrieved a 251 metal container , with a good-fitting lid , from a skip . |
| 13 | Eight years ago , no nine years ago , I lost a three year old grandchild from something very much like T S S , and that was erm streptococcus septicaemia . |
| 14 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 16 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 17 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 19 | At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it . |
| 20 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 21 | I acquired a 1301 plastic tank ( the kind with a removable lid which is retained in position with a ring clamp ) and installed inlet and outlet hose sockets in the sides close to the top at diagonally opposite points . |
| 22 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 23 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 24 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 25 | I learned a thousand crafts . |
| 26 | I did a two metre batch . |
| 27 | Not really no , I mean , erm , I did a three year national diploma in music , music recording |
| 28 | No way in the world , if I won a million pounds again . |
| 29 | Good job I had a four card had nothing else |
| 30 | No I had a fifty pound debt . |