Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
| 2 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 3 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 4 | It rocks you backwards and forwards and is supposed to stimulate the endorphins in your brain , helping to boost thinking power It did n't — but then I was only on it for about 10 minutes before I started feeling sick . |
| 5 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 6 | Six months before I got married . |
| 7 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 8 | And six months since I saw Alix . ’ |
| 9 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 10 | It was in the summer , some six months after I had arrived in Paris , that I determined to earn a little money . |
| 11 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 12 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 13 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 14 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 15 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 16 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 17 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 19 | ‘ I found myself in France a little more than six weeks after I enlisted . |
| 20 | ‘ Generally , everything happened about four to six weeks after I wanted it to . ’ |
| 21 | You 've got to find out six mistakes but I found |
| 22 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 23 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
| 24 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 25 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 26 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 27 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 28 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 29 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 30 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |