Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics .
2 Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot .
3 He flew into Morag 's arms and the pair of them hugged one another .
4 About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent .
5 Most of them got thirty years .
6 Most of them charged 60 per cent a year or 5 per cent a month .
7 The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall .
8 I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally .
9 I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) .
10 In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community .
11 And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice .
12 There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched .
13 And er I think after and when I became sixteen that er had to start paying your your m paying the union I had to join the union as a junior member you know .
14 And er of course , when I er I became twenty one , the National Health Insurance was er now went up to one and tenpence .
15 I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans .
16 I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded .
17 I asked one evening .
18 I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience .
19 When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table .
20 By now we were amongst a group of riotous children , and I asked one of them if the festival were now over .
21 I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide .
22 I asked one of them .
23 And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house .
24 Because I know I asked one of my friends
25 I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace .
26 I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly .
27 Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died .
28 And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together .
29 ‘ Would you like to pick your own nose , Sir , ’ I asked one serious looking shopper .
30 I asked one of they did n't I ?
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