Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 2 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 3 | I remember nothing whatever about the match , as I passed out thirty yards from the ground . |
| 4 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 5 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 6 | I tried out three companies that specialise in cultural holidays accompanied by expert lecturers . |
| 7 | I single out three sections for special mention . |
| 8 | When I changed up fifty quid 's worth here erm on the Monday I got four point three five . |
| 9 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 10 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 11 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 12 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 13 | I came out seven years later , and the whole world had changed . |
| 14 | In a feeble effort at self-preservation , I put up one arm to ward off a blow , but the arm fell down as if it would have nothing to do with such an idea . |
| 15 | I put down four revolts in towns you would n't even notice if you rode through them . |
| 16 | He hands it over when I run down one flight of stairs and straight up another to arrive obediently at his side . |
| 17 | I trotted along one evening wondering what Medau was all about . |
| 18 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 20 | We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout . |
| 21 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 22 | you want to see me , I get up three times to rake ashes er out and then I go int the kitchen in that cupboard , gerra newspaper and I 'm here screwing it up and throwing it on fireplace . |
| 23 | ‘ When I started out eight years ago my sole aim was to contribute to the national team , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 24 | I packed up three months ' baggage and bought yet another case to bring home the excesses of my shopaholism , wrote down the addresses of many new friends and drove to New York to meet a really old one . |
| 25 | I wore out four carpets a year . |
| 26 | I could n't go without my red plastic bucket , or rather three of them ; I brought up five children without a washer — by choice . |
| 27 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 28 | So I brought about twenty-two earthquakes |
| 29 | Opening the wallet I counted out 19 dollars . |
| 30 | I Dreamed up two sides of beef , fresh butchered and dripping pink and red . |