Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 2 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 3 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 4 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 5 | there , which I got off one of my |
| 6 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 7 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 8 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 9 | They used to go about one o'clock . |
| 10 | Handling between 800 to 900 calls a day involves a lot of patience , and Clare says she always remembers to smile which helps . |
| 11 | Trade incentives , one case free for every ten purchased in the in introductory period which we 've foreseen as four weeks . |
| 12 | Once underground aquifers are polluted , contaminants can remain for hundreds of years . |
| 13 | → Well , when I replied to the very first letter criticising Eric 's apparent tonal excesses , I mentioned the differences that we 've all heard between one Marshall , or Boogie , or Strat , or Les Paul from the next . |
| 14 | Births registered during one month in each area were randomly sampled . |
| 15 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 16 | Mix to a smooth dough , knead for 10 minutes , the cover with a damp cloth and leave for 1 hour . |
| 17 | Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth . |
| 18 | Amendments , etc. , can be traced through two Current Law Statute Citators , one for 1947–1971 , and one for 1971 onwards . |
| 19 | A nearby stream was polluted for 1,000 metres and 20 fish died . |
| 20 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 21 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 22 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 23 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 24 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you really think , ’ Alexandra had said earnestly , a pile of linen sheets in her arms , ‘ do you truthfully think for one moment that Aunt Emily would wish this room to be kept like — like a museum ? |
| 27 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 28 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 29 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 30 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |