Example sentences of "[num ord] [num] [noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what I want to suggest is that the second two categories I 've mentioned , that 's the vocal channel and the body language channel can actually be very important in communication . |
| 2 | The first six weeks I did n't want to know . |
| 3 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 4 | For the first three sentences I done , I was still with Desmond . |
| 5 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 6 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 7 | Getting back to this they 're starting , the first two weeks I 've for timetables , administration etcetera that 's the which was agreed whenever . |
| 8 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 9 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 10 | ‘ For the first four holes I played like a 20-handicapper . |
| 11 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 12 | As Taff started to cook the first half-dozen eggs I went along the road that ran around the village and passed near to the orchard . |
| 13 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 14 | After the next fifty yards I drew it out and took a look at the bad news . |
| 15 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 16 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 17 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 18 | For the last 10 years I have worked to create environments for the millions of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia . |
| 19 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 20 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I once said that the reason we went to America was to make money , but over the last six weeks I 've really changed my mind totally . |
| 22 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 23 | For the last six months I did erm ward sister duties . |
| 24 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 25 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 26 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 28 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 29 | And the last three weeks I 've put on road safety because I know there 's a lot of road safety stuff |
| 30 | During the last three seasons I 've had four major matches , including two at Wembley , ruined . |