Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 3 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 4 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 5 | for a period of five or ten years and lease it off them and then have to maintain it . |
| 6 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 7 | Four or five bars and tell me what you notice about bar three . |
| 8 | And er he er we used to go there and play with , you know , three or four hours and keep him company , like . |
| 9 | So somewhere there 's a big party and o or somebody who wants three or four crackers and put their own gifts in . |
| 10 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 11 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 12 | He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive . |
| 13 | To do justice to the many writings of Marx and the vast body of work that has accumulated around his writings is impossible within the confines of this book and we shall , therefore , merely attempt to discuss one or two ideas and indicate their impact upon organisations . |
| 14 | Once you are up and going , you should select your course out through the waves aiming to jump on only one or two waves that take your fancy . |
| 15 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 16 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 17 | Panther claims it will blast the Solo from standstill to 60mph in less than 6.0 seconds and take it on to a top speed in excess of 150mph . |
| 18 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 19 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 20 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 21 | His dazzling victory makes him one of just six men with a realistic chance of hitting the jackpot at the Palace 100,000 dollars for overall victory and 30,000 dollars for winning their particular event . |
| 22 | We will then look at thousand and one bits and see what effect and follow that up . |
| 23 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 24 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 25 | The following three sections take one class and two children and analyse their work in the way suggested in Discovering which words to teach ( page 12 ) . |
| 26 | A woman is claiming four policemen broke her arm and two ribs while arresting her for a crime she did n't commit . |
| 27 | Police said ten armed men broke into a warehouse late on Tuesday night in the south of Medellin , Escobar 's home town , poured petrol over six Rolls-Royces , a Mercedes , a Porsche and 20 motorcycles and set them ablaze . |