Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 2 | Advice from England No 2 Lawrie McMenemy has helped me survive my first crisis as a manager . |
| 3 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 4 | I asked you last week , mate . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
| 6 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 7 | The front door was locked , and that was when I made my first acquaintance with a venerable traditional figure , the sereno , an old man with a stick , a big brass badge and a large bunch of keys . |
| 8 | In these labs I made my first acquaintance with physics , scattering iron filings on a paper placed over a magnet to produce a pattern which I then had to reproduce in an exercise book . |
| 9 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 10 | I brought a keyboard and an eight-track machine , and Juan and I set it up in my apartment on campus , even though we were n't supposed to play music loud.Then I made my first record , Triangle Of Love . |
| 11 | He goes on with self-glorifying statements like , ‘ I made my first tube amplifier in 1957 ’ . |
| 12 | I made my second journey to Cosford in 1980 , an Olympic year — though I had no aspirations in that direction . |
| 13 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 14 | A month later , I made my third trip to Rhodesia . |
| 15 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 16 | I mean his first touch is decent he 's gone past there 's a suggestion I think that he he could have gone down . |
| 17 | No I mean your first name . |
| 18 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 19 | If so , you will sympathise with my own feelings when I unearthed my first coin dating from the English Civil War : a Charles I shilling , probably minted in Oxford in 1642 . |
| 20 | I met him last year , when I was coming out of Bazyliszek and needed a ride . |
| 21 | ‘ I was encouraged by the way the idea was received by Sepp Blatter , Fifa 's general secretary , when I met him last month , ’ Kelly said yesterday , ‘ and I 've also been encouraged by his comments since then . ’ |
| 22 | I met her last year , you know . ’ |
| 23 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 24 | When we first started people used to say , Canine Defence League never heard of them , but since then people have come up to us and said , Oh I met you last year and I 've joined the League . |
| 25 | My career was shaped , I suppose , when I sold my first sweater to a smart shop in Stratford at the tender age of sixteen . |
| 26 | ‘ I got yer second name and it was easy after that . ’ |
| 27 | I got them last night , you know . |
| 28 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 29 | Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval . |
| 30 | When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack . |