Example sentences of "i [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) .
2 I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself .
3 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 !
4 I got a two litre G L.
5 I I got a twelve month ban anyway .
6 The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor .
7 ‘ I think he must have taken one because two days later I found a five pound note in the box .
8 Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime .
9 Well he said it were one point six but that says one point three and I really do sh well I want a one point six .
10 I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now .
11 I want a fifteen hundredweight truck to the Officers ' Mess immediately . ’
12 And I want a dozen bottles for myself ’
13 You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items
14 Have I won a thousand pounds ?
15 I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor .
16 ‘ It 's under the arch and through the saucepans , ’ I told a million shoppers who wanted the ladies — or at least I think that 's where it was .
17 I earn a 5 figure salary and have three houses .
18 I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit .
19 I park a hundred yards away up the High Street .
20 I run a 90 diesel on 205 x 169 for road use and Michelin XCL 7,50 x 16- for off road .
21 I set-up a four foot tank as per a tropical marine ( but minus a heater of course ) .
22 Wo n't be easy but I predict a 3–2 win .
23 Have I got a fifty pound ?
24 Or ‘ can I fit a 5 speed gearbox to my ‘ 74 Range Rover ? ’
25 Did I mention , I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic ?
26 Myself , I get a dozen invitations a year …
27 I get a dozen scripts a week like that .
28 Then I retrieved a 251 metal container , with a good-fitting lid , from a skip .
29 Okay Hello , can I have a three pound fifty car wash please .
30 Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres .
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