Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's say I 'm , I 'm going , I give you this question , I want to find a hundred and one times twenty six , right ? |
| 2 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 3 | I 'd , I 'd I 'd got a four year old toddler and a and a eighteen month old crawler when , when I was your age . |
| 4 | But first I use to get a eighty per cent disability pension . |
| 5 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 6 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 7 | I had tied a three inch strip of webbing between the shafts , which I used as a harness . |
| 8 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 9 | In preparation for my new job I had attended a three week Radar Observer 's course at the Sir John Cass School of Navigation in London and obtained my certificate which is obligatory for budding Commanders and is identical to the ticket held by Masters and Mates of the Merchant Service . |
| 10 | I had prepared a 4 foot tank , hoping to house all 30 Victorians together . |
| 11 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 12 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 13 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 14 | If I had read a dozen Somerset Maugham books about colonial clubs in remote settlements , I could n't have bettered my first impression of Tala-Tala 's Union Jack Club . |
| 15 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 16 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 17 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 18 | One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece . |
| 19 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 20 | Somewhere in my house I 've lost a twenty pound note . |
| 21 | he said and in all my years of surgery I 've done a hundred and odd drainages and that is the biggest |
| 22 | I 've done a hundred and twenty thousand |
| 23 | wants two more miles on my clock and I 've done a thousand mile on my . |
| 24 | She was bound and helpless , and I 've masturbated a million times imagining girls I know in such situations . ’ |
| 25 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | I 'VE WON A MILLION |
| 27 | ‘ Just to be told I 've won a million was one of the greatest thrills of my life . |
| 28 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 29 | No but I would I thought wow , I 've won a hundred you 've won a twenty one P packet of Walkers Crisps . |
| 30 | If I 've had one I 've had a dozen . |