Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't beaten the Aussies at Lord 's since 1933 and I do n't see us winning now . |
| 2 | Shlomo Green was only 62 but he looked much older . |
| 3 | He was n't exactly nasty to me but I was only sixteen and I had n't done many interviews , and I was nervous . |
| 4 | The test kit had a range of pH6 to 8 , but the reading of my existing tank was obviously below 6 as it went instantly yellow . |
| 5 | The most important recent decision , Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , was first published outside LEXIS eighteen months after the judgment following a complaint from the judge in Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 that it had not been reported . |
| 6 | Is that the only two that I have n't heard Oh you off school today ? |
| 7 | There was only two when we started here . |
| 8 | It was only eight-thirty and it did n't seem likely that I 'd go to bed early , if I went at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I got back about six-thirty and I have n't been out again . ’ |
| 10 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 11 | And erm I think I was about three when I came back here . |
| 12 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 13 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
| 14 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 15 | She was about thirty and she had very beautiful eyes . |
| 16 | Not sure , I must ask her where he does he goes to a Marks where they always have every possible man 's suit that Marks make and and he takes the time to buy two or even three because he does n't get that much time for shopping . |
| 17 | He was not quite sixteen but he had long acted like a boy impatient of childhood . |
| 18 | They 've retired early , they 're all around 50 and they hang around in leather jackets . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |
| 20 | It was not yet ten as he swept up to the space reserved for the Chairman 's car slap in front of the main entrance to Royalbion House . |
| 21 | There are over 150 and he has already seen all but 40 . |
| 22 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 23 | After only 18 days the female spat out the fry ; there were an awful lot of them ( over 60 as it turned out ) , and they were very small — they had to be — for that many to fit into the buccal cavity of such a small fish . |