Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 2 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 3 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 4 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 5 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 6 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 7 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 8 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 9 | Say erm everyone has two parents . |
| 10 | I ca n't see them keeping two stores on . |
| 11 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 12 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 13 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 14 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 15 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 16 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 17 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 18 | I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages . |
| 19 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 20 | I made two attempts . |
| 21 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 22 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 23 | Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 24 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 25 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 26 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 27 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |
| 28 | Anyway , in the end I made 1,800 pesos on the funeral . |
| 29 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 30 | I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby . |