Example sentences of "i [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only slight justification for Batty going I can see , I realised last night . |
| 32 | I fought last week with flu , so I ’ ll take the weekend off and start training again on Monday . ’ |
| 33 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 34 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 35 | Crew in the box , I second crew oh look I got second crew , second crew |
| 36 | I got second prize . |
| 37 | ‘ I thought if I got next door , we might get talking , perhaps get back together . |
| 38 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 39 | That was n't the impression I got last night . ’ |
| 40 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
| 41 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 42 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 43 | You know that film I taped last night with John Travolta ? |
| 44 | The Marshall MIDI preamp which I reviewed last month represents one approach to this ‘ new ’ technology : hybrid construction ( a couple of 12AX7/ECC83s ) , a simple layout , plus part push-button and part rotary controls . |
| 45 | The drawing packages I 'm looking at this month have more widespread practical use than the painting packages I reviewed last month . |
| 46 | Well what I tried last weekend , not quite crying but I did a sort of moody sort of thing , I di I was really quiet and I just ignored everyone and I was like really like you know did n't say a word . |
| 47 | I expect next week to be your last chance to register before the shut-off date . |
| 48 | I expect next week when she 's six till two , it 's easier in n it ? |
| 49 | Then I found first gear and stomped on the accelerator . |
| 50 | Its stores I visited last weekend were packed with customers testing out its ‘ Great Autumn Value ’ campaign . |
| 51 | Oxford , Bristol — which I visited last week — and Newcastle are suffering great problems . |
| 52 | Well she , like I say next year , if they 're not paying double time she 's gon na get no one to work is she ? |
| 53 | The tenanted side of the Pubmaster pub retailing division is to be called Threshold Inns and not Legend Inns as I reported last month . |
| 54 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 55 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 56 | My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master 's Lodge of his college . |
| 57 | As it 's a special deal , the money will have to be paid all at once , and the sooner the better in case fares go up ; so I suggest 8th December ( ie one month from now ) as the provisional date for payment . |
| 58 | I suggest next time you pick up broken glass you try not to be so careless . |
| 59 | So here we are in January , my premiums are going into the Japanese fund , I want next month 's , February 's to go into the managed , that 's just changing , and it leaves these Japanese funds invested , here . |
| 60 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |