Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [subord] i be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew Washington quite well , having visited it two or three times while I was at Amherst in 1969 . |
| 2 | The authorities in Addis Ababa had undertaken to provide me with an escort of ten soldiers while I was among the Danakil . |
| 3 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 4 | One afternoon while I was in the USA , I received four obscene telephone calls . |
| 5 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 6 | Well it looks to me I mean I , it , it 's five days since I was in Manchester so |
| 7 | I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line : before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten . |
| 8 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 9 | Mind you I 'd get myself embarrassed in front of sixty million viewers if I was on her money |
| 10 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |