Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 2 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 3 | For this they received £30,000 from the publishers . |
| 4 | A fuel tank was shaped into a boat so that when empty it gave 600lb buoyancy in the event of ditching . |
| 5 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 6 | Between 1973 and 1985 it spent £25 million pounds on a process to remove about 95 per cent of the mercury from its runcorn effluents , which has an annual operating cost of £1.5 million . |
| 7 | The Big Six , in their statement , say that in 1991 they spent 9% of auditing and accounting revenues — $477m — on settling and defending lawsuits , and repeat an estimate that the profession as a whole is currently facing $30bn in damages claims . |
| 8 | Premiums are as steep as this because insurance companies got their underwriting spectacularly wrong three years ago : in 1991 they lost £1.2bn on mortgage indemnity . |
| 9 | Compared to a Sun Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb NFS writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 10 | Compared to a Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb Network File System writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 11 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 12 | for the relief and reward of the defenders of their Country at this Important Crisis ' , and in 1807 they provided £200 for a school in Londonderry , even though the Irish Society had already subscribed . |
| 13 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 14 | Take China : in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers . |
| 15 | Stipends were generally better in town churches : when Joseph Parker began his ministry in Banbury in 1853 he received 50s. a week or £130 p.a. although when he left Banbury for the affluent Cavendish Street Chapel in Manchester in 1858 his income jumped to £1,700 . |
| 16 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 17 | ‘ Sure I knew people that were never out of black with the deaths coming the way they did , ’ Julia said . |
| 18 | So that 's all we got threepence . |
| 19 | In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices . |
| 20 | In 1981 it spent £252 million . |
| 21 | Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake . |
| 22 | In 1902 he attended staff college , and was posted in 1903 to the staff of the Somaliland field forces . |
| 23 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 24 | In 1774 she donated £50 for the maintenance of alms women in the town . |
| 25 | The company refused an offer of £925 in 1924 , but in 1928 they accepted £250 for the engine , boilers , steelwork , rope etc. as and where they lay . |
| 26 | In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram . |
| 27 | of walling at 1/6 he had £20 9s. 8d for slating their roofs , 127 yds. 8 ft. sq . |
| 28 | Late in 1674 he supplied fruit trees to Sir Richard Temple [ q.v. ] at Stowe and William Russell , first Duke of Bedford [ q.v. ] , at Woburn Abbey . |
| 29 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 30 | Er in other words , er when I was fifteen I got sixpence a week extra and a little more from the man I worked with . |