Example sentences of "i [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 2 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 3 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 4 | It 's that stuff I made last year and |
| 5 | I made last year 's . |
| 6 | I want to play you a recording I made last night . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm prepared to double the offer I made last time . ’ |
| 8 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 9 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 10 | The House will be aware that I announced last month the principles that I am minded to adopt next year in considering whether planned expenditure is excessive or has increased excessively . |
| 11 | I announced last week assistance to Russia in the safe reduction of its surplus nuclear warheads , and we are considering with other interested countries how best to help Russia use the skills of its scientists for peaceful purposes . |
| 12 | I mean first day |
| 13 | I mean first thing he did was er redundan we used to get four weeks for every year redundancy payment , bang , no forget it . |
| 14 | I mean second time around you know what 's gon na go on . |
| 15 | it will be nice when it 's done , I mean last weekend he sorted out the doorway which was n't half knocking out |
| 16 | I I mean last year |
| 17 | I mean last year some , some of them did just sort of a paper exercise whereby the |
| 18 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 19 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 20 | Hell of a but er I mean last night , Val said it 's alright . . |
| 21 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 22 | I mean last time I was at an opera was erm I had these tickets now erm I took my sister and a friend of hers . |
| 23 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 24 | Twenty fi I mean last week there was a hundred sixty in and that was actually up on the previous couple of weeks , just |
| 25 | Yeah but I mean last season we hardly , Paulie and I hardly ever used to come home having lost . |
| 26 | Cos Jenny is marvellous she , I mean next door she er she very rarely buys . |
| 27 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 28 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 29 | I mean next minute you 're with them . |
| 30 | I mean next time I buy a house I shall say excuse me but are you a blooming idiot ? . |