Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor !
2 So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all .
3 And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know .
4 And she said well , I 'm see that I 've twenty second er I 'm sending him that , mum , to do my reference cos they 've got ta they 've got ta have that .
5 ‘ Did you know that I married six months after you did ?
6 Don Bennett had always publicly — and to my embarrassment — told anyone who would listen , that I recruited 16,000 Pathfinders for our heavy bomber squadrons and the mosquitos of the Light Night Striking Force .
7 When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist .
8 When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist .
9 ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’
10 The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out .
11 For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry .
12 I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines .
13 You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday .
14 Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded .
15 Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one .
16 So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’
17 Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division .
18 This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment .
19 And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all .
20 Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ?
21 Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ?
22 Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair .
23 Now what I mean by that , is that every , you know , twenty working day month , I know from analysing my time , that I lose two days , two full days to major interruptions .
24 I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years .
25 The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good .
26 And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ?
27 The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil .
28 Yeah , but you say that I paid thirty pounds for the Astra , now let's get it in the balance here , you see what I mean , and that sen and then
29 I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street .
30 I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them !
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