Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your washing-up lady left a message that she was three weeks in arrears and she was going to see her brother in Brighton — whatever that means — anyway I took it out of the petty cash and paid her . |
| 2 | ‘ We had about three days of talks before we were allowed to film the expenses sequence , ’ says associate producer Lynn Alleway . |
| 3 | They er there are just three sizes of ads that we have |
| 4 | Now then the physical environment leads onto those three types of resources and they are renewable |
| 5 | In fact Sir Christopher only used the plan for guidance and much of the one thousand acres of trees that he planted was the result of his own great vision . |
| 6 | WIRRAL Magistrates bailed Andrew Ashman 24 , of Waterpark Close in Prenton for 4 weeks for reports after he admitted entering the locker room at Prenton golf club and stealing a sports bag and contents in May . |
| 7 | The widow of a Naval airman has been awarded more than a hundred and sixty thousand pounds in damages after he died following a bout of heavy drinking . |
| 8 | There was sense in which , it was n't really in Pilate 's hands , because Jesus had said to him , if I wanted I would speak to my father , he would send ten legions of angels and they would deliver me out of your hands , Pilate , you have no power over me . |
| 9 | I mean you , you 're not gon na go out and spend eighty quid on groceries that you 've already had on Friday just cos the shop 's open on Sunday are you ? |
| 10 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's far worse in many other districts . |
| 11 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's ah worse in many other districts . |
| 12 | It could have it like those , like those , like those , or like those So that would be one deck of cards that you 'd be given and they 'd have the four types of symbols on them , separately of course . |
| 13 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 14 | One sniff of drugs and he is there . |
| 15 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 16 | You get one lot with one lot of ideas and they run the country their way , and nobody likes it . |
| 17 | But just one line of things that you know , I do n't mean a diary where you write a page every night , but just two lines you know . |
| 18 | I 've only got the one book on jukeboxes and I 've used up all the good ones . |
| 19 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
| 20 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 21 | This type of geomorphology , which has subsequently attracted both great support and disenchantment , has been the subject of at least two groups of interpretations and it is perhaps the lack of equal familiarity with the achievements of both groups that may account for the differing viewpoints some of which are listed in Table 4.1 . |
| 22 | A tram driver hid him under a seat in return for two packets of cigarettes and he escaped from the Austrian Soviet zone . |
| 23 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
| 24 | In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 . |
| 25 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 26 | Two formations of bubbles and it 's bitten deep enough . |
| 27 | An environmental campaigner is demanding that Severn Trent Water should refund seven million pounds in charges because he claims it 's not doing its job properly.Julian Jones says the authority is failing to control pollution … and the local community could spend the money more wisely.And now he 's going to court to claim the water charges back . |
| 28 | But ha I remember I was on my test and I pulled round er it was very , very busy and there were two rows of cars and I pulled up and I thought right there 's a gap down there and I want to go straight on and all these others were turning le turning right so I squeezed down through the gap and then I thought right I 'm gon na be here a little while shall I put it in neutral , blow no I wo n't . |
| 29 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 30 | I mean I bought one or two pair of clogs when I was on the dredger and we 'd take the iro iron piece off underneath , that 's just like a , a shoe what a horse have , like go round the |