Example sentences of "i [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 2 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 4 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 6 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 7 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 8 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 9 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 10 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 11 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
| 12 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 13 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 14 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 15 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 16 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 17 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 18 | I asked one evening . |
| 19 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 20 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |
| 21 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 22 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 23 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 24 | Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ? |
| 25 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 26 | I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages . |
| 27 | I read Seventeen magazine . |
| 28 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 29 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 30 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |