Example sentences of "[num] [noun] and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | said I will know within forty eight hours and we thought we Tuesday you see |
| 2 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 3 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 4 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 5 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 6 | Say speak , speak up to six notes and he thinks he 's |
| 7 | We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong . |
| 8 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 9 | 7 make-up and I thought it was great . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been playing throughout the year for the past six years and I think my body is telling me it is time for a break , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 14 | So we went to the sixty six shop and I said what 's wrong with that , pristine beautiful . |
| 15 | It was bad cos there was no money , no money about at all , nineteen twenty six strike and what have you and no there was no money at all so people did n't want their babies did they ? |
| 16 | Marshall would love to see the group enjoying Top 10 hits and he feels it could happen , if they soften their approach . |
| 17 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
| 18 | We had somebody round for dinner on Thursday and bought us a box of After Eight Mints and I think they lasted five minutes |
| 19 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 20 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 21 | cos some of them are three ply and I thought I 'm not gon na sit and knit three ply . |
| 22 | and then I think she 's back for , erm I think she gets back , she misses one Monday this Bank , Bank Holiday , that 's , that 's four days and then , she does , I think she 's got another two , three weeks and I suppose she 'll be , well she 'll be doing GCSEs anyway |
| 23 | That ti I was at er canteen at erm and I took my plate , I was there thre two or three days and she says you 're the only one that 's ever brought the plate back . |
| 24 | Stewart was signed up to race Tyrell 's Formula Three Coopers and he won his first race at Snetterton . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 26 | She had worked for Mair as his PA for the last three years and he knew her now no better than on that morning when she had sat in this same office being interviewed for the job . |
| 27 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 28 | I could hardly believe that there 's nobody on level three mm and you see we done the Easter eggs and they ca n't join in , I have to say no , it 's a shame you know the |
| 29 | Our objective in this section , therefore is to develop a simple labour-market model which draws on aspects of all three approaches and which enables us to construct a link between the unemployment percentage and the rate of national income . |
| 30 | This situation has been exemplified on at least three occasions and I wonder what my fellow members think , especially when the companies are paying high fees and not receiving a proper audit . |