Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 2 | I mean one in seven of our bookings now are long haul holidays , and a large percentage of those will be going to America , and again the exchange rate from the pound to the dollar helps us there . |
| 3 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 4 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 5 | They have a grave in Golders Green : I visited it in 1947 , a fortnight before my wedding . |
| 6 | I want you in dozens of different ways , and only a few of them have anything to do with actual physical desire . ’ |
| 7 | I read it in one twenty-minute sitting , howled like a baby for ten more minutes , then phoned the producer and practically begged her to give me the job . |
| 8 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 9 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 10 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 11 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 12 | I saw it in one of the papers , but did nt see it on the day . |
| 13 | On my way back downstairs I saw you in one of the bedrooms with Melanie . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I keep it in one of the lock-ups at the top of the back lane . ’ |
| 15 | The town was much as I remembered it in 1919 . |
| 16 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 17 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 18 | I had it in eighty one , twenty years so another ten years . |
| 19 | And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union . |
| 20 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 21 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 22 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |