Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 2 | I found them at last . |
| 3 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 4 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 5 | I mean I said ‘ I want something by next Thursday ’ and , of course , they were n't there or the papers were n't done . |
| 6 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 7 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 8 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 9 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 10 | I remember you from last time , but |
| 11 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 12 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 13 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 14 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 15 | Last girl to leave turns it off at night , then I puts it on next morning . |
| 16 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 17 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 18 | I therefore welcome his belated decision to take part in a full debate and the fact that he is now — I quote him from last week — keen to acknowledge that there is always room for constitutional change . |
| 19 | so I said something about last week , you see , and I could of , it was my birthday last week and , but er , and I carried on , he said oh go , oh I 'm sorry mum , I 'm sorry about that and I said do n't matter , does n't matter , well I thought , right I 'll let him know |
| 20 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
| 21 | It 's alright , only if you can let , all of you that have expenses , can you let me have them by next Wednesday and erm , I will , I can pay you out then at the meeting and erm , because you know , everything has to be in erm by the end of this month . |