Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I became pregnant five months ago , he has neglected me . |
| 2 | ‘ When he refused to pay I asked all 16 lads to put the jackets in my bag , and left . |
| 3 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 4 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 5 | I mean flipping two sips of cider and I 'm anybodys ! |
| 6 | I mean that ten grand , that 's their car . |
| 7 | I mean one one day we |
| 8 | Erm I mean one one fact that emerged after the the riots , when the actual arrest figures were were analyzed , was that the vast majority of people who were arrested at any rate , did n't come from the area . |
| 9 | Surely its relative , I mean two thousand pounds to you might be quite a lot of money , but to someone else , its , its not a big deal . |
| 10 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 11 | But even so I mean fifteen thousand pounds , it 's still a fair bit to live on . |
| 12 | Although fifty hectares at thirty per hectare I mean fifteen hundred jobs erm and I think we 've got eleven hundred or a thousand on our total unemployment role . |
| 13 | Well they said they 'd wait , I mean fifteen hundred pound ai n't he would pa put a deposit down , it 's only five percent in n it ? |
| 14 | Well I wonder how many people here , I mean ninety three people say they ha , they th they occasionally do get depressed , I wonder if you ever have taken er , mood controlling drugs such as tranquillizers ? |
| 15 | it ai n't bad though I mean twenty two pounds for fifty , work that out |
| 16 | Cos if I lose twenty eight pound then you , then you sponsor me for |
| 17 | Er I drunk erm I think I drunk two two cans or maybe three cans of Scrumpy Jack and then a can of Supertricks and I was well gone I , I had to pass out . |
| 18 | I drunk these fifteen pints and I fucking looked as if I was dead . |
| 19 | But when I inserted another two SIMMS the system came up with 6Mb of RAM as expected . |
| 20 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 21 | Well I got thirty five shillings a week and I was doing six hou twelve hours a day from Monday till Friday and twelve and a half on a Saturday . |
| 22 | I got that one fish ponds , I got erm gala , I , no I ai n't got any , the other one . |
| 23 | I got sixty two onions . |
| 24 | I got twenty four hours yet dear ! |
| 25 | So I got twenty five quid from my grandad cos he make . |
| 26 | they 're very cheap , they do n't seem to know their value that , I got those two Ercols there |
| 27 | I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing . |
| 28 | I got another three rabbits with the ‘ thrower before I packed it in . |
| 29 | I reviewed this 1935 recording of the Slavonic Dances when it was reissued on the BBC 's Vintage Collection label ( 12/89 — nla ) . |
| 30 | But I found three thousand dollars . |