Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , Christie 's tell me that their film and entertainment sale of December 1991 saw a mere 10 per cent unsold by value and a paltry 25 per cent unsold by lot , which of course does not add up to ‘ a third of the lots ’ unsold , as I wrongly stated last week . |
| 2 | ‘ I only managed 26th place taking 43 minutes , but Howard Moiser came 14th with a very credible time of 38.10 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I once lived next door to a giant of a man with feet like Yeti slippers . |
| 4 | I hardly slept last night . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know , I hardly slept last night I was so excited . |
| 6 | Sandy , this is the first of these courses that you 've run , and I deliberately said first of these courses — do you have any plans for running future courses ? |
| 7 | I nearly did last night . |
| 8 | Now , the process we recognise in the pa pathogenesis of meningitis due to this organism is as follows , first of all and then it is able , by , mechanisms not completely described but we could probably involve this transpschycosis er phenomenon that er , I I briefly mentioned last time . |
| 9 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |