Example sentences of "[num] but i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 2 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 3 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 4 | I was a party to all these decisions other than B. v. B. ( Contempt Committal ) [ 1991 ] 2 F.L.R. 588 cited and relied upon in Howes v. Howes , 142 N.L.J. 753 but I should also refer to two recent decisions to which I was not a party , but to one of which Scott L.J . |
| 5 | I 'd done five but I could only remember one . |
| 6 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 7 | ‘ I think Some Like It Hot started around three-thirty but I ca n't quite remember . |
| 8 | I know something at twenty past one on B B C two but I would n't like to say what |
| 9 | I could hear my wife , Sharon , in the driver 's seat of our Peugeot 405 but I could not see her because my eyes were clouded with blood . |