Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Once you have one ball moving smoothly , you can try two . |
| 3 | Muji is not simply a post-matt black yuppie haven , but beware — once you buy one thing , you 'll find it hard to stop . |
| 4 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 5 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 6 | ‘ So we have one hour left ? ’ |
| 7 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
| 8 | Now I ca n't remember , if I go one way I 'm gon na finish back up in |
| 9 | But if I come one day and Liverpool are from the league , I |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't think what would happen to the shop if I take one day off . ’ |
| 11 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 12 | If I write one digit per second , how long will it take me to write out all the numbers from 1 up to 1991 ? |
| 13 | If I say one morning while looking out of my window , The sky is blue , then I am using this sentence deictically . |
| 14 | Well I said if I see three snow flakes we 're off to Tenerife ! |
| 15 | oh I know when I 've got a lots of , if I do one lot tonight |
| 16 | and if , and if I do two Beta award weekends |
| 17 | And if I have one person dearer to me than another , why must that person be singled out for an object of your violence ? |
| 18 | I believe that if I have one person in each branch whom I can support and direct to implement the branch recruitment strategy we will make some progress . |
| 19 | I believe that if I have one person in each branch whom I can support and direct to implement the branch recruitment strategy we will make some progress . |
| 20 | If I have one drink then I 'm gone . |
| 21 | The same if I brush one arm against a wall or a lamp-post ; I must brush the other one as well , soon , or at the very least scratch it with the other hand . |
| 22 | So , yeah so what I have erm I do n't really need to stuff my face cos I eat one meal a day see |
| 23 | ‘ If ye hold one end o' the skipping-rope ye 'll be able tae stop me from slipping when I work down towards Dick . |
| 24 | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ? |
| 25 | If you use 110 spring pads , the RR rear axle will fit ( it 's not as strong as a 110 ) and you will need to have a propshaft made up . |
| 26 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 27 | It means if you know one score , you automatically know the other . |
| 28 | And if you change one spreadsheet you have to change everything because it is n't automatically changed throughout . |
| 29 | So , you know , if you get one factor on which a lot of them load erm like the business about , you may find there 're strong correlations between the attitudes to abnormality and , where 's the one on mental illness and stuff like that ? |
| 30 | Susan says : ‘ If you get one boy , more will follow , but if you lose one … |