Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've ended up with 2 secs. stop down and repeat until you get something more useful . |
| 2 | If you 've ended up with 2 secs. stop down and repeat until you get something more useful . |
| 3 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 4 | We arrived at Bury St Edmunds with three hours to look around and have lunch . |
| 5 | And er then I would see the two two or three cleaners coming out and going on to the coach and cleaning them , and I would say to them , What are they for ? |
| 6 | Even the three debutants came in and played like never before . |
| 7 | The three friends sat down and enjoyed their favourite pastime — eyeing up the women in the theatre-bar . |
| 8 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 9 | The three droves sent on as presents to Esau have reached him , and now Esau and his four hundred men are within sight of Jacob and his little entourage . |
| 10 | He slowed to look inside the complex as a black BMW 5 Series swept out and joined the traffic jam going north . |
| 11 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 12 | Here , the two people meet and each takes ten minutes to reflect on and verbalise the achievements that they have made and identify further needs . |
| 13 | Our caravan park offers over 50 acres to roam in and enjoy . |
| 14 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 15 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 16 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 17 | So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ? |
| 18 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 19 | One bloke burst in and told us to go to bed . |
| 20 | Last weekend I went to a wedding and one lady came up and said : ‘ You are different from these people . ’ |
| 21 | But the business we got from it wo n't be big , one lady rang up and said I heard about you on Radio York . |
| 22 | But one lad messed about and pushed it through those holes . |
| 23 | Fig 1a is often seen but is vulnerable to shock loading if one anchor pulls out and creates a dangerous lateral pull on the pitons . |
| 24 | Capitalist economy was not built as the result of an overall , collective , decision ; no one nor one group sat down and said ‘ we shall now proceed to build capitalism . ’ |
| 25 | Rosa looked at the weapon piercing the heart of the Mother of God , around which her finely carved wooden hands , so lithe and brown they too might one day reach out and clasp hers , fluttered as if poised either to grasp it and draw it from her or plunge it in deeper . |
| 26 | For Tara , and for Ireland , and for the world of the Future , and perhaps also for the legendary Lost Prince who will one day rise up and defeat Medoc … |
| 27 | ‘ One dog jumped up and bit off my ear then they pulled me to the ground . |
| 28 | The British Midland ATP aircraft carrying fifty nine passengers iced up and plunged thirty five hundred feet from the sky above Cowley last year.The pilot eventually regained control , but the official report into the incident concludes that the airline 's advice NOT to apply full power to get out of such a dive , was inappropriate . |
| 29 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
| 30 | ‘ One farmer came back and said that employing 300 Kenyans cost one-fifth as much as weedkiller , ’ he said . |