Sentence examples for counting I from inspiring English sources

"Even before they started counting, I had this pit in my stomach.

"If I had known you'd be counting, I would have played harder," she said with a laugh.

He told me that he was going to count to three, and that when he began counting I should take a big breath and hold it.

On Tuesday evening, the fourth day of my forties (yes I am counting), I went to see Bob Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall.

After 11 years and one week (not sure how many hours but I was close to counting), I sat for half an hour wavering over pressing the 'send' button... wondering how we were going to pay the bills... all that job security gone... that wage coming in automatically every month.

"If I had known about this complication of my doctoral time counting, I would have had major reservations taking the position; although I now have an extension, the initial time frame (2 years) I was given wasn't realistic.

I counted, I know.

"Count!" I counted twenty dollars.

"That one doesn't count," I insisted.

"The only poll that counts," I mutter.

That doesn't count, I say.