Example sentences of "i [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eight years ago , no nine years ago , I lost a three year old grandchild from something very much like T S S , and that was erm streptococcus septicaemia . |
| 32 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |
| 33 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 34 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 35 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 36 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 37 | At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it . |
| 38 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 39 | I bet a million quid that |
| 40 | I collect a thousand pounds ! |
| 41 | ‘ Well , with Jonathan Ross I use a 60 watt Rivera combo with a Twin Reverb as a kind of satellite , and a Korg A3 for effects . |
| 42 | I acquired a 1301 plastic tank ( the kind with a removable lid which is retained in position with a ring clamp ) and installed inlet and outlet hose sockets in the sides close to the top at diagonally opposite points . |
| 43 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 44 | You 've got all the you 've got I think a hundred voices . |
| 45 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 46 | As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace . |
| 47 | I learned a thousand crafts . |
| 48 | My parole finishes in nine days and then I start a nine months ' suspended sentence . |
| 49 | I did a two metre batch . |
| 50 | Not really no , I mean , erm , I did a three year national diploma in music , music recording |
| 51 | No way in the world , if I won a million pounds again . |
| 52 | Good job I had a four card had nothing else |
| 53 | No I had a fifty pound debt . |
| 54 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 55 | I had a hundred photocopies made of their reply and began another support-raising campaign , including a copy of the letter from the SAS with each request . |
| 56 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 57 | I had a hundred men in there , dismantling the place back to the bare walls . |
| 58 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 59 | I 'm I 'm every day people , before I met you my life was standing still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |
| 60 | still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |