Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know a number of things . |
| 2 | I 've led a number of races and I do n't think I have made too many cockups . |
| 3 | The first one is that I , I 've received a number of complaints about colleagues smoking in the , in conference . |
| 4 | I 've received a number against . |
| 5 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 6 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yet I have been in the game for two decades , I 've had a number big race successes and I was even stable jockey for Vincent O'Brien for three years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |
| 10 | ‘ I remain Chairman of a large company , Harrison and Crosfield , Chairman of the Dover Harbour Board , which is also looking towards privatisation , and I 've got a number of charities I 'm involved in . |
| 11 | So I 've got a number , I mean I started with , had had about fifteen , we 've now got about ninety six . |
| 12 | Jim Bowen I am I am I 've got a number I 'm going to ring him in minute . |
| 13 | I 've got a number down here , er , seventy percent of total costs of egg production are var are variable costs , and essentially that 's the feed , the chicken feed . |
| 14 | No I 've got a number of possibilities I 'm just check running through my mind which is the first one to go for . |
| 15 | I 've got a number of points I 'd like to come back on . |
| 16 | I get people calling me up saying erm they 've got a memory call problem and er , I 've deleted a number of files off the disk , and the problem did n't go away . |
| 17 | Madam Chairman , you will know that I have written a number of letters . |
| 18 | I have lost a number of fish , which were completely covered with them . |
| 19 | ‘ I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles ’ he wrote , ‘ such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments ’ . |
| 20 | At the same time , I have asked a number of questions which I , if I may so , have not been answered . |
| 21 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 22 | I have received a number of requests recently from clients who have been sent claims for payment which , while clearly including a VAT element , contain the words ‘ this is not a VAT invoice ’ . |
| 23 | I have received a number of dog faeces through my letterbox this week from some of our more fanatical ‘ supporters ’ after our defeats against Botham and at Sidcombe last Tuesday evening . |
| 24 | My right hon. Friend and I have received a number of representations from the Combined Heat and Power Association . |
| 25 | I have received a number of representations on that subject . |
| 26 | I have received a number of letters on the subject , and most people who are knowledgeable about the subject tell me — and I am sure that they are right — that the root cause is bad watchkeeping , mainly by merchant vessels but also occasionally by fishermen . |
| 27 | I have received a number of representations from milk producers and processors , hon. Members and members of the public . |
| 28 | I have received a number of representations recently about the Fenchurch Street line . |
| 29 | I have received a number of representations about ECGD cover for Iran and Russia . |
| 30 | I have received a number of representations from business men about the need to cut regulatory burdens . |