Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 2 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 3 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 4 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 5 | I think you 've probably had enough actually , you get he 's , just have one , one little bit , put your finger in , and then we 're gon na put it in the , er three fingers put it in the wash |
| 6 | Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence . |
| 7 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 8 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 9 | Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards . |
| 10 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 11 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 12 | For many years before 1914 private house owners had been hit by an increasing share of rate levy , at a time when the costs of urban government were rising ; from the 1880s landlords found themselves in an increasingly difficult situation as demand fell and the burden of local taxation mounted . |
| 13 | If I could illustrate from two medieval theologians , the two traditions following them in the Tomas tradition righteousness and the moral law of God is seeing is seen as being part of the very being of God himself . |
| 14 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 15 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 16 | Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted . |
| 17 | At the end of the day , Tess was waiting for Angel to bring the horse and carriage , when two men passed her in the street . |
| 18 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 19 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 20 | As there are four men surrounding you in a close semicircle , you must aim for their weak point — the smaller of the two end men . |
| 21 | The first two shots took him in the shoulder and the left chest . |
| 22 | Two boys thumped her in the stomach . |
| 23 | Two factors affect it in the first four years . |
| 24 | As far as human awareness is concerned , the two impulses manifest themselves in a strict relation : only so much Dionysiac experience is permitted to the individual consciousness as can be controlled by the Apolline and translated into its life-sustaining terms . |