Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] [num] of " in BNC.
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1 | I 've done over fifty of them I 'm still standing up just about . |
2 | I 've got about six of his books in there ! |
3 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
4 | I 've got about ten of them to give people if they ask we what are you doing . |
5 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
6 | I have received literally thousands of letters from readers telling me of their successes . |
7 | The world 's rarest horse , Equus przewalskii , is set to be reintroduced to its Mongolian homeland after a successful captive breeding programme , which has produced around 1,000 of the animals . |
8 | Lawenham was never the same without him ; by 1568 it paid only half as much tax as Long Melford , compared with two-and-a-half times as much in 1524 , and its place had been usurped by Hadleigh , which had paid only three-fifths of Lavenham 's quota in 1524 , yet now ranked as the third town in Suffolk after Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich . |
9 | TELFORD 'S Richie Woodhall will defend his Commonwealth middleweight title in Wolverhampton on January 20 against Jacques Le Blanc , a former Canadian champion who has lost only four of his 25 contests . |
10 | Boucher , who has lost only three of his 23 fights and carries a powerful right-hand punch , will represent a fair test . |
11 | But there was a school of thought which advocated the claims of Andy Hayhurst , the Lancashire exile who has filled capably one of the opening-bat vacancies left by the departures of Cook and Roebuck . |
12 | Bart-Williams , who has started just two of the last nine games , said : ‘ I am very disappointed not to be in the side . |
13 | There are a couple of Ralph Connelly 's boys in here who were n't too happy when they heard you 'd blown away three of their mates . ’ |
14 | She 'd got about six little normal dining chairs , and then there there were the carver chairs , she 'd got about six of those . |
15 | Jackson , the WBC middleweight champion with a 45-1 record and 42 knockouts , KO 'd club fighter Eddie Hall ( 21-9 ) , who had won only one of his last five fights . |
16 | If it is the simple physical characteristics of a stimulus that play the key role in generalizations about behaviour , then we might expect to find patients who have lost the ability to lip-read and lost the ability to judge expression , but not patients who have lost only one of these two abilities while retaining the other . |
17 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
18 | We 've selected just three of the many contrasting resorts which we believe will offer you a good base from which to explore . |
19 | Always popular , this year in the calendar we have gathered together one of the most beautiful collections of positive images of life in Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
20 | Moreover , we have included only three of the four sections of our " checklist " presented in section 3.1 ( p75–80 ) . |
21 | ‘ We have had literally hundreds of letters and calls this week from people wanting to register but they ca n't now , of course , because they are too late . ’ |
22 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
23 | They 've got effectively three of those . |
24 | They 've set aside thousands of tonnes of salt which they 'll dump on icy road surfaces to make driving safer . |
25 | It was St Aloysius ' fifth successive final , though they have won only two of them . |
26 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
27 | The Home Office says it has assessed only 560 of the total influx . |
28 | It has sold over 300 of them , at around $70,000 each . |
29 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
30 | Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 . |