Example sentences of "[num] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
2 | At the Suzuka Eight Hour I had the front skidding in the second part of the Spoon Curve . |
3 | Fifty p I give Dass . |
4 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
5 | Fifty pound I think . |
6 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
7 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
8 | For those eight months I wanted a disciplined one-track existence and a focused mind . |
9 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
10 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
11 | I 'll just , I 'll give you the forty P I 've with er let you keep the the magazines . |
12 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
13 | M and S yoghurts were thir were thirty-one P I think , over the summer . |
14 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
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 | On 30 January I took part in the Prime Minister 's discussions with President Yeltsin , following which the British-Russian joint declaration and an agreement on consular posts were signed . |
18 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
21 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
22 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
23 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
24 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
25 | Over forty pounds I bet . |
26 | Well er , probably about er in them days they used to call them twelve score and then so it 'd be twelve , two 's or something that 's two hundred forty pounds I suppose like , you know and er , but most of the people er . |
27 | Even at measly forty quid I made a fucking profit . ’ |
28 | In a 1972 paper I suggested that during the evolution of terrestrial open-country monkeys , two main selection pressures operated on the individuals whose collective strategies lead to the interactions and relationships that are responsible for the social structure ( see also Fig. 4.1 ) . |
29 | In 945 Malcolm I had signed a treaty with Edmund of England agreeing that in respect of lands held by himself in Strathclyde , which included Cumberland , he owed fealty to Edmund . |
30 | Yes , I mean that 's something that I enjoy doing , it 's , it 's quite a lot of fun in , in , in , in , coming to , to actually research each walk afterwards , er one for example , the Rollright Stones up on the Warwickshire border , that was particularly interesting because there 's quite a , quite a legend surrounding the Stones up there , er then there 's one at er a place called Hampton Gay just off the Banbury road , the Midlands-North railway line er goes quite close to the village of Hampton Gay , and towards the end of the last century there was a major railway disaster on that track killing about er 30 people I think , er so , you know , things like that which are perhaps not er that well known , you , you , you stumble across when you come to do the research . |