Example sentences of "i [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
| 2 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 3 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 4 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 5 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 8 | I asked one evening . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 12 | 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 ’ ? |
| 13 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 14 | Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ? |
| 15 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I read Seventeen magazine . |
| 18 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |
| 21 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 22 | I made two attempts . |
| 23 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 24 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 25 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 26 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 27 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 28 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 29 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 30 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |