Example sentences of "[num] [noun] i [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 2 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 3 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 4 | Three times I 've come round here , and three times no one answered . |
| 5 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 6 | In a basket scram it 's three wheel I 've had as many as a hundred and forty pound loaves in a scram to push from to Street up to Road . |
| 7 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 8 | After two or three days I started picking up . |
| 9 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |
| 10 | Er y erm well the three things I 've got down here , piano , I I notice the piano 's arrived . |
| 11 | The three issues I want to put forward to the minister are , number one does this matter ? |
| 12 | Hey now for the past three mornings I 've got up out of bed , I 've made you a cup of tea every morning and breakfast on a tray , so do n't you come complaining to me . |
| 13 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
| 14 | ‘ Again , while I have always felt that length was not one of my problems , the additional ten yards I have picked up are obviously very welcome . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , only one question I 've got please . |
| 16 | One product I found did not freeze well . |
| 17 | For twelve years I have wandered through |
| 18 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 19 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 20 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 21 | One day I decided to test out these facts by catching and measuring some of our local birds . |
| 22 | One man I know did very well once out of selling " yule logs " by post . |
| 23 | Well , well actually , there 's one thing I 've missed out which I said I 'd come back to , and that was the front line review that I referred to . |
| 24 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ One thing I hope to get there — religion . |
| 26 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 27 | But one thing I do find sadly lacking is a middle-of-the-range clothes shop . |
| 28 | One thing I have missed here is a piano to play , but we visited an Australian who teaches English here last night , and listened to some Beethoven . |
| 29 | One thing I did appreciate in almost all the French and German restaurants I ate in , was the happy absence of Muzak . |
| 30 | ‘ This is one show I did enjoy immensely … together they make a sophisticated irresistible team . ’ |