Example sentences of "[num] i [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about half past eleven I had a telephone call — I was in bed but I have an extension in my room for emergencies . |
| 2 | On 29 September 1980 I purchased a house for £9,000 cash from my father , who owned it exclusively in his own name from 1968 when I , along with him , my mother and sister , came to live there . |
| 3 | In Chapter vi I suggested a way in which this can be achieved . |
| 4 | In 1972 I wrote a paper with Brandon Carter and an American colleague , Jim Bardeen , in which we pointed out that although there were many similarities between entropy and the area of the event horizon , there was this apparently fatal difficulty . |
| 5 | With × 12 I find a hint of resolution in the outer parts , and this is marked with × 20 . |
| 6 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 7 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 8 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 9 | One day in 1826 I brought a box of toy soldiers home from Leeds . |
| 10 | In the nineteen seventies I ran a school primary team , and at that time a woman refereeing football was quite a novelty . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was in grade three I had a crush on this really big guy . |
| 12 | Er number three I had a phone call , oh I forgot the term planner . |
| 13 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 15 | When I was fifteen or sixteen I found a confirmation of my interest in what it is to take on your own past in some of Sartre 's work . |
| 16 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 17 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 18 | When the Abwehr sent me to Ireland in forty-one I met a friend of his in Dublin . |
| 19 | In 1978 I published a study ( The Aristotelian Ethics ) in which I argued , on the basis of twenty-four independent tests based on 60% of the word usage in the text , that the disputed books resembled the Eudemian context rather than the Nicomachean one . |
| 20 | In 1976 and 1977 I published a number of papers in pragmatics , and these I eventually revised to make a book , Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics , published by John Benjamins ( Amsterdam ) in 1980 . |
| 21 | A nice night 's sleep seems like a nice change , but nightmares have habits of popping up , once when I was five I had a dream that my friends and I were being ripped apart and eaten by a giant , now when the time comes to go into that great big C D tea room in the sky , could you change something ? |
| 22 | Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . |
| 23 | at Christmas time 193 1 I had a table of gold , hoping that it might in some way draw us all back to the old gold standard again gold lame tablecloth , old white Mennecey china , many yellow roses . |
| 24 | Before I go on a DV I feel a bit like a private eye . |
| 25 | At the age of seventeen I entered a convent . |
| 26 | When I was about twelve I had a governess called Miss Mayhew . |
| 27 | 13 I open a book to page x . |
| 28 | In 1926 I won a scholarship to Hastings High School for Girls , and was able to have four years of Grammar School education . |
| 29 | I want two I want a girl and a boy . |
| 30 | But one day in 1989 I got a phone call from Bob Woodward , founder and chairman of CLIC , the Cancer and Leukemia in Childhood Trust . |