Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 2 | I mean it took about ten minutes , quarter of an hour altogether . |
| 3 | I mean he had about four or five different shirts there . |
| 4 | And she 'd I think she had about eight , over over a period of years you know . |
| 5 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 6 | erm and I know they sold about five or six tickets at least next week |
| 7 | I know it went up two steps . |
| 8 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 9 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 10 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 11 | You feel like er , that 's whose , like ex soldiers throughout the company , and he said to Colin er , he said , how many people are you thinking about employ , our Colin seems to think there 'd be enough work to keep 'im going , like , he says , he says , well how many people are you thinking about employing , he says , only only me and me like , it 's oh , oh , he says , there 's plenty of work to keep two of going , he said , I thought you employed about six . |
| 12 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 13 | The only trouble is , it 's sporned so many , I think they got about twenty eight industrial groups ! |
| 14 | They I think they got about twenty per cent bigger . |
| 15 | We had , I think we had about two ships of that , that 's all . |
| 16 | Quite a lot of fish were returned to the water and I think we took over seventy in that couple of hours in the afternoon . |
| 17 | Well yes , we did , we rang on Tuesday , we had a bit of a trouble getting through , I think we rung about seven times before we got through but er he , well , well he did n't say anything to me , everything I asked him he said yes to , but Steve |
| 18 | Those two put together , I think we lost about three hundred thousand pounds as a result of the change in distribution . |
| 19 | I think she I think she did about eight or nine European countries did n't she ? |
| 20 | I think he scored about 9 goals in the 5 or so matches he played in the youth cup , and 2 more in the senior ! |
| 21 | I think he knew only one thing about himself . |
| 22 | I think he aged about ten years in one after that ! |
| 23 | I think I heard about thirty . |
| 24 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 25 | I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of |
| 26 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 27 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |