Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 2 | Second half I was expecting to see a lot more action from Leeds at the Leeds fans end part of the ground . |
| 3 | And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week ! |
| 4 | And , and obviously it was ridiculous , every second word I was having to look up and then I 'd get all that and it moves onto the next one . |
| 5 | On the second offence I was given a suspended sentence . |
| 6 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 7 | About eight o'clock on the eighth day I was told to pack my stuff up , because at seven o'clock the next morning I was going to Styal . |
| 8 | After the fifth anchoring I was beginning to despair , when a thought struck me — I was forgetting the scope of the dinghy 's painter . |
| 9 | It was the first place I was refused accommodation . |
| 10 | ‘ The first job I was robbed of by Progress , ’ he told the boys , but added darkly , ‘ and the Yanks . ’ |
| 11 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 12 | In my first job I was required to wear a suit . |
| 13 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 14 | It felt a bit lonely , the first night I was crying upstairs because all my family came , and me and my sister are really close and it was upsetting to leave her . |
| 15 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 16 | That first morning I was served a rudimentary breakfast in the Officers ' Home . |
| 17 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 18 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 19 | For the first offence I was given a fine . |
| 20 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 21 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 22 | But last night at his home in Bradford , he said : ‘ The first thing I 'm going to do is have it cut . |
| 23 | At the end of the first year I was summoned to the Dean 's office . |
| 24 | When I was a first year I was put in as ballboy and I did n't know the rules . |
| 25 | Hi , this is the first time I am posting to the list . |
| 26 | Or , maybe for the first time I am standing there looking vulnerable . |
| 27 | why you know what I do n't know what 's changed in the meantime or whether we 're paying different rates or whatever , but if you take the material that we were getting in two three years ago when first time I was involved , it 's just absolutely nothing like . |
| 28 | The first time I was strung out I did n't know what it was . |
| 29 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 30 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |