Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 2 | And I might have a thousand stashed away that I did n't know about ? |
| 3 | I 'll handle a one two five every day . |
| 4 | Yeah and I 'll throw a ten ! |
| 5 | I 'll take a four please . |
| 6 | I 'll take a hundred and fifty now ! |
| 7 | and probab er probably Thursday morning as , as well , so I 'll probably have Thursday , Friday maybe Saturday , well , oh I should have , because by working on the games Thursday morning , that 's another three hours , that 's , brings me up to , twenty eight , yes twenty eight er er thirty one and er , I 'll , I 've got class top contacts time in the , in the afternoon , so that does n't count , Friday I 've got class , a two hour class , but er , tt , I 'll be working outside , in fact that class will be cancelled that day , so it 's er , so four hours that 's thirty six er , Saturday forty two , Tuesday erm tt , oh that week I 'll have a six for Wednesday er nine Thursday er twelve for Tuesday another twelve , plus the evening twelve , plus two , plus another six , that 's eight and a half , eighteen , another eighteen hours |
| 8 | I 'll have a thousand , er Shel ? |
| 9 | know nothing after that , but anyway I said it will , I 'm putting this away so I 'll have a hundred pound then and if she does n't come I says I 'll have a hundred pound for |
| 10 | know nothing after that , but anyway I said it will , I 'm putting this away so I 'll have a hundred pound then and if she does n't come I says I 'll have a hundred pound for |
| 11 | I 'll try a three ! |
| 12 | When Sam Phillips , founder of Sun Records and ‘ creator ’ of Elvis Presley , said , ‘ If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel , I could make a billion dollars ’ ( quoted in Hopkins 1971 : 66 ) , the twin motivations , artistic and commercial , were not separated or separable . |
| 13 | You work it out in stages , little bits , and then you add the bits together and then you add the bits together , so you say , well I could do a hundred times seventeen and then I could do ones times seventeen . |
| 14 | ‘ I could do a three hour programme every night of the week and no duplicate anything , ’ he enthuses . |
| 15 | ‘ I could do a three hour programme every night of the week and no duplicate anything , ’ he enthuses . |
| 16 | I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd set it five or 10 beats lower till I could complete a 20–30 minute run without bleeping — then set it higher . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I could see a hundred evictions and still keep a level head on that subject . |
| 19 | I 'd walk a million miles with Beefy |
| 20 | I 'd have a , I 'd have a two |
| 21 | Well I spend everything I earn so I 'd say a hundred percent of what I 'm on . |
| 22 | Sheringham destroyed Leeds last year in our 4–0 defeat and if he plays , I would regard a 2–2 draw as improvement enough to celebrate . |
| 23 | just for the visit I would get a fifty . |
| 24 | Erm it 's very much what I would term a fifty fifty case . |
| 25 | Er I would say a sixteen or seventeen . |
| 26 | I would recommend a 7.50 x 16 radial fitted to your own rims or to modestly wide eight spoke rims ( I dare not tell you my preference or people will think I am biased towards Michelin ) . |
| 27 | You should be working on a , I would recommend a three month rolling basis , in terms of your current for the daily diary pages . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , with the sidecar , plus the condition of the bike , she is worth every penny of two hundred , ’ Bert said cautiously , ‘ but from you I would take a hundred and seventy five . ’ |
| 29 | If I get one more letter , one more wheedling phone call , one more black-mailing , whinging final demand I shall — I shall utter a twelve sentence expletive and tell the poor , beleaguered sod exactly where to stuff his appeal form . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |