Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 2 | A. I know S. nattereri does attain 12 inches because I have kept one of that size . |
| 3 | It rocks you backwards and forwards and is supposed to stimulate the endorphins in your brain , helping to boost thinking power It did n't — but then I was only on it for about 10 minutes before I started feeling sick . |
| 4 | er , then , so that 's at least , well in fact that 's more than sufficient , I should get paid more than six hours because I 've been working on the students , on the disabled games all day Friday |
| 5 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 6 | Six months before I got married . |
| 7 | ‘ Is that a promise , Chris , or will I have to wait another six months before I bump into you — literally ? ’ |
| 8 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 9 | And six months since I saw Alix . ’ |
| 10 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 11 | It was in the summer , some six months after I had arrived in Paris , that I determined to earn a little money . |
| 12 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 13 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 14 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 16 | ‘ I found myself in France a little more than six weeks after I enlisted . |
| 17 | ‘ Generally , everything happened about four to six weeks after I wanted it to . ’ |
| 18 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 19 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 20 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 21 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
| 22 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 23 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 24 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 25 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time . |
| 27 | The actors try improvising the scene two or three times while I scribble down the lines that sound good . |
| 28 | During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see . |
| 29 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 30 | I 've only seen my daughter-in-law for three minutes since I got the news . |