Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset . |
2 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
3 | Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager . |
4 | This document is nice and clear plain English , but quite frankly some of the replies and some of the er , er things understood by the public , can we ensure that we do use plain English , I 've got no criticism with this , this is okay , but when we get the replies to our customers erm that we service can we use plain English , that 's my first point , do you want to respond or can I make my second one ? |
5 | I asked him first , How are you ? |
6 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
7 | GUIL : I asked you first . |
8 | I asked you last week , mate . ’ |
9 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
10 | I made it last Friday . |
11 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
12 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
13 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
14 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
15 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
16 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
17 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
18 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
19 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
20 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
21 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
22 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
23 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
24 | I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
25 | A month later , I made my third trip to Rhodesia . |
26 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
27 | I mean his first touch is decent he 's gone past there 's a suggestion I think that he he could have gone down . |
28 | No I mean your first name . |
29 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
30 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |