Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] 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 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 3 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
| 4 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 5 | For those eight months I wanted a disciplined one-track existence and a focused mind . |
| 6 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
| 7 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 16 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 17 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Over forty pounds I bet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The only 2 grounds I know in Scumland are ‘ Maine Road ’ and ‘ Swine Park ’ . |
| 22 | Turning from downwind to base at around 500 feet I found that you could almost pull the throttle completely back and make a glide approach . |
| 23 | If you walk into Spanish shops they 're on size eight shoes I mean what would you mean what are you talking about . |
| 24 | About forty eight bottles I suppose . |
| 25 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 26 | Within 10 minutes I had found a suitable love-nest at the Glasgow Green , some 200 yards from the High Court . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 28 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
| 29 | There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was . |
| 30 | No , it 's thirteen hours I want |