Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 2 | Er you will I think have one problem er in working for the L E A. Erm I happen to be a school aid inspector and I 'm finding now quite a with er with the income tax people at the moment |
| 3 | I see what I eat means one thing , but I eat what I see means something very different . ’ |
| 4 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 6 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
| 8 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 9 | Well how much would I need to make one tonne ? |
| 10 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 11 | I want to use one film as a springboard into these questions — Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) , written by Noel Coward and directed by David Lean . |
| 12 | I shall not go over all that ground again , but I want to mention one point . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to satisfy one appetite at least . |
| 15 | I want to get one thing straight before this conversation finally goes down the drain and before he orders liqueurs . ’ |
| 16 | I do not support the new clause , but I want to bring one aspect of it to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 17 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 18 | I want to make one comment about the referendum before dealing with the main subject of my speech . |
| 19 | The way he went on looking at her made her flesh heat , and she took a second or two to ensure that her voice would emerge steadily before saying , ‘ I want to make one thing absolutely crystal-clear , Luke . ’ |
| 20 | I must copy them myself , unless I want to pay one shilling for each sheet . |
| 21 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 22 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 23 | Yeah , and she did see rather surprised that I 'd finished one wall ! |
| 24 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 25 | Of course , I 'd overlooked one thing … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 27 | I 'd had one week after another when my wages were light , what with fines and that . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , ’ I said , ‘ that he wants what I have , and also what I hope to have one day . ’ |
| 29 | And I seem to remember one house |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |