Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 2 | On the 199 bus I sit upstairs where it 's smokier than at Victor 's but at least I get a good view of the streets below . |
| 3 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
| 4 | One afternoon I went out riding . |
| 5 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 6 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 7 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 8 | He says , only one girlfriend I 've ever had netball queen and how many other people has he snogged . |
| 9 | I said to him there 's fifty , well there 's sixty one pound I think on there . |
| 10 | But the one album I 've ever had that is n't an irritating is it 's , each side of that tape is forty five minutes long and you can fit it , apart from about er right at the very end of one song you can fit the whole album on a C ninety . |
| 11 | No , there was nothing like that , no , I think there 's only one girl I 've ever part time . |
| 12 | One boy I have not seen before has the perfect Masai physique , tall and slender but muscular like a high jumper 's . |
| 13 | Er just one question I do n't really understand the erm employment levels . |
| 14 | This is one publication I have not come across before . |
| 15 | Mind you , there 's one dream I have regularly , I do n't need to write it down because I have it so often . ’ |
| 16 | At one point I had pretty yellow fungi growing from the floor , which was right above a store room to the cafe downstairs ; needless to say , I never ate there . |
| 17 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 18 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 19 | One evening I came home late from a concert . |
| 20 | He played one record I liked so much I decided to go out and buy it . |
| 21 | It is one place I have never worked at . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 23 | On one occasion I got together twelve of the most prominent crimps ; they were a soulless and cold blooded lot . |
| 24 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 25 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 26 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 27 | On one occasion I screwed up my courage to ask if I could come in at 9 p.m. instead , at which Harold looked puzzled and asked why . |
| 28 | Then one night I went out and I met this DJ from Taboo , which was a club at the time . |
| 29 | Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move . |
| 30 | One night I got out of bed and drove — very badly — to an office . |