Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
2 | He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one . |
3 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
4 | And I remember once old used to gather sacks , ken bags and , and he went to , and I remember one night he come , he 'd been round the country hawking and he come home . |
5 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
6 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
7 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
8 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
9 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
10 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
11 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
12 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
13 | And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind . |
14 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
15 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
16 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
17 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
18 | And I got thirty pound twenty five for it . |
19 | Yeah , and I got four Rottweilers . |
20 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
21 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
22 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
23 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
24 | My flat had a sitting room , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen , looking over a tree-lined courtyard , and I got 3 meals a day every day including Sunday . |
25 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
26 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
27 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
28 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
29 | And I heard one woman in the audience say , ‘ Look , her hair pins have just fallen out . ’ |
30 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |