Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell .
2 The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me .
3 Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ?
4 Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes .
5 Satisfying himself that he was absolutely alone , Yanto sat down on a handy clump of grass and removed his boots , which together with the two rabbits , he placed under a nearby blackthorn bush .
6 The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery .
7 Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit .
8 In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
9 Thank you also for the ten pound cheque which I 'll be donating to Cancer Research , Yours sincerely , Angela .
10 And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets .
11 Entering the Portal will transport you back to the five doors where you can visit another country and city .
12 What happens in practice is often something in between the two extremes outlined here .
13 Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds .
14 Apparently , one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction .
15 By which I mean at least one out of every two issues .
16 Aha , one out of every two issues .
17 But a consultant says the infection only causes problems in one out of every 50,000 births , so screening every pregnant woman would n't be practical :
18 … This means in practice that one out of every twenty samples will fail to comply with the standard and the Authority will be at risk from somebody , some member of the public , prosecuting . ’
19 One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen
20 One out of every seven Palestinians injured from live ammunition , beatings or teargas is a woman .
21 One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion .
22 Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ?
23 Look with me now at the twelve questions .
24 There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them .
25 ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday .
26 ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace .
27 Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec .
28 There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly .
29 I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’
30 Outside-half Didier Camberabero , not an immaculate hair out of place , converted 11 of those tries by way of reminding France , who left him out of the Five Nations ' side , that he is still a formidable competitor .
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