Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last week , the computer broke down completely for 36 hours and it is claimed this may have resulted in up to 20 deaths . |
| 32 | ‘ In the States , most of the big races are over a mile or ten furlongs and it is becoming trickier by the season to be absolutely sure you have made the right decision . ’ |
| 33 | John Pain wrote home to his mother : ‘ I note that a Canadian ( Walsh ) sprang a glycol leak at 27,000 feet and he was forced to bale out . |
| 34 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 35 | We 're just playing with twelve pennies and she 's making patterns out of them to make multiplication tables |
| 36 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 37 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 38 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |
| 39 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 40 | Erm hash it back to referrals , thirty one weeks six hundred any of the thirty one weeks and they 're gone . |
| 41 | ‘ You only ran five metres and you 're panting fit for the knacker 's yard . ’ |
| 42 | I just I just I could have spent five afternoons and it was finished . |
| 43 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |
| 44 | ‘ We have a link with some 250 farmers and we are working with them to produce what our customers — the consumers — want at the end of the day . |
| 45 | So nowadays I can say it was a German bomb of five hundred kilograms and it was dropped by a crippled He . |
| 46 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 47 | ‘ We pulled back two goals and they were kicking the ball anywhere to keep us out . ’ |
| 48 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 49 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 50 | It only has two eyes but they are divided for viewing above and below the water surface . |
| 51 | well that would make your twenty would n't it because if you have four speakers and you 're aiming for sixteen punters |
| 52 | Windows World , which is effectively Microsoft 's booth there , is spread over two halls and we 're told to expect a cast of thousands of independent software vendors in supporting roles . |
| 53 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 54 | There has been some form of settlement in Humbleton for at least 900 years and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Humeltone . |
| 55 | We 're here for two days and I 'm going to present to what to some of you will be some new ideas some new concepts that you 've perhaps never come across before . |
| 56 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 57 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 58 | Two swallows and it was gone . |
| 59 | And the other one , I wonder if the Council would consider , over sixties club , I ought to declare an interest I suppose , erm have two hundred members and they are distributing this Christmas , as they al always do , a three pound voucher to each of those members in office you know and I just wondered whether the Council would consider a small contribution towards that expenditure . |
| 60 | Drew then withdrew from the 200 metres and I was asked to run . |