Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else — more generously — I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son . |
| 2 | I 'm taking one officer , John Massingham , with me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm taking one hell of a chance on you . ’ |
| 4 | The figure below shows a portion of the word lattice for a fine-class representation of EvalA2 ( I 'm naming one man among many ) . |
| 5 | In I 'm naming one man among many , therefore , an initial attempt is made to match a long word to the sequence ( Fig 7.5.1 ) . |
| 6 | I know , but I 'm to buy two birthday presents I just do n't have thirty . |
| 7 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 8 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 9 | If I were to seek one word to describe the quality of these works of art many by famous names , many by local artists to whom the purchase brought rare encouragement — I should say that they are alive . |
| 10 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 11 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 12 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 13 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 14 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 15 | in the morning , half one to four o'clock , I was getting three pound an hour |
| 16 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 17 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 18 | I was to have one visit from the district nurse and , of course , check-ups from my GP and surgeon . |
| 19 | A. T. I was reported one day . |
| 20 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 21 | I was told one flight was full , and left the gate to mooch around the newsstands . |
| 22 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 23 | Mine went up with , you know let's face it if I was doing sixty mile an hour it would be doing just over six grand . |
| 24 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |
| 25 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 26 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 27 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 28 | South East Sumatra : Production is currently at 180,000 bopd ( 6,500 net to LASMO ) , with the major contribution coming from the Widuri field which is producing 100,000 bopd . |
| 29 | The Maths Department assists in an S1 and S2 Computer Familiarisation course which is allocated one period per week . |
| 30 | The grant is awarded to pay toward the costs of a series of three workshops , the purpose of which is to disseminate 16-19 Initiative findings . |