Example sentences of "[adv] [num] and [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're only 17 and it will take time . ’ |
| 2 | He 's only nine and it would upset him badly if the school had to close . |
| 3 | I 'm nearly seventeen and I can do what I like . ’ |
| 4 | In in in my own family my mum and my aunt went into service you know when they were about thirteen and they used to do the most abysmal jobs for next to nothing . |
| 5 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 6 | But tonight I 'll prob tomor like yesterday I went to bed at about ten and you can hear it calling out , crying out there . |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 8 | Tell him to ring about seven and we 'll fix a place for eats . |