Example sentences of "[num] [noun] and i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 2 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 3 | 7 make-up and I thought it was great . |
| 4 | We had somebody round for dinner on Thursday and bought us a box of After Eight Mints and I think they lasted five minutes |
| 5 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 6 | and then I think she 's back for , erm I think she gets back , she misses one Monday this Bank , Bank Holiday , that 's , that 's four days and then , she does , I think she 's got another two , three weeks and I suppose she 'll be , well she 'll be doing GCSEs anyway |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 8 | ‘ I said ten days and I meant it . |
| 9 | If policy can be set to one side then it is set to one side and I think it enhances the reputation of of the system . |
| 10 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 11 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 12 | At least that is one scenario and I hope I am wrong . |
| 13 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 14 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 15 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |
| 16 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 17 | Five pounds and I bought it . |
| 18 | when Mikie was here and you were doing nights , and he called us one day and I said it 's not six o'clock yet he said you 're |
| 19 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 20 | Just one shot and I pushed her into the water . |
| 21 | Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty |
| 22 | Mr Major told the Commons yesterday the EC economies ‘ are not remotely ready for one currency and I believe they will not be ready if they every will be for many years . ’ |
| 23 | That if you like , er , and I 've used this example before but I 'll use it again , it was quite interesting I think anyway , is that one of the examples we used on one of courses , is that somebody calls into the depot and says , I need help , I 've got to get this delivered by tomorrow and collections or you or whoever takes the call , is very excited because this person says it 's three hundred and fifty kilos and I need it today , it 's Durham , we 'll use Durham , we 're starting from here , in Durham tomorrow morning . |
| 24 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 25 | And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months |
| 26 | We have not ever yet achieved a fourteen point two turnover and I grant you that at Christmas we were up , just under the four percent mark . |
| 27 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 28 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 29 | I 've worked with her now for nearly two years and I think she 'd do an excellent job . |
| 30 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |