Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Incidentally , it is interesting to note that this occurred only five days after the discovery of the planetoid Chiron , the astrological meaning of which includes the collaboration of previously separate and antagonistic disciplines . ) |
| 2 | And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there . |
| 3 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 4 | ‘ It sure is , I visited there five years back , with my wife — now , would you know the Bedford Hotel ? |
| 5 | The attack came only five days after another great white killed 34-year-old British-born mother of five Terri Cartwright , who had been on a diving excursion off the island of Tasmania . |
| 6 | The incident came just five days after a pitch invasion by Manchester City fans during their side 's 4–2 FA Cup defeat at home to Tottenham , which was screened live on television . |
| 7 | The vote came just five days after the United Nations-appointed ‘ Truth Commission ’ report blamed the army for the vast majority of war crimes in a conflict that killed 75,000 people , most of them civilians . |
| 8 | The youth final was a game of many chances but it was defending champions Friends of Allonby who scored just five seconds before half time against Viking . |
| 9 | He came here five days ago , just after Christmas . |
| 10 | I said to Joan I said well when we came here five years ago , I 'm glad we did n't get her , by gawld she did look young |
| 11 | Crichton had been Rovers ’ hero , but he suddenly turned villain when he pulled down Hignett as he streaked clear five minutes from time . |
| 12 | The new boards showed about five points with a route number in small figures at each end ( the only place where route numbers were ever shown on South Metropolitan cars ) . |
| 13 | On Friday night after he had pulled down the blind Dan Salmon handed over five sovereigns to Charlie along with several wafers of matzos . |
| 14 | His 32-year-old mother had popped in to finish her weekly shopping in the local Co-Op store and returned just five minutes later to find him missing . |
| 15 | When he lost to the now-tragic figure of Michael Watson in 1989 , Benn believed he was invincible — incredibly he spent nearly five hours on fight-day having his hair plaited . |
| 16 | " Then she sent him in to get Mr Lee and they spent about five minutes in the sitting room . " |
| 17 | Englert and Klaus von Klitzing at the University of Würzburg discovered about five years ago . |
| 18 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 19 | These figures mask large differences between individual LEAs : the highest-spending authorities spent almost five times as much as the lowest-spending ones . |
| 20 | Raymond Buckey spent almost five years in prison before being released on bail in February 1989 . |
| 21 | His studies also helped to relieve the boredom when he spent almost five months in the Falklands in 1985 . |
| 22 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 23 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |
| 24 | Auckland lost only five games while Trapp was in charge . |
| 25 | Altogether , over a span of eleven years , Lottie Dod lost only five times in open singles as she collected five Wimbledon , five Northern , and three West of England titles , as well as one in Ireland and one at Waterloo . |
| 26 | Between the two phases subjects answered two brief questionnaires which together required approximately five minutes to complete . |
| 27 | The long case clock beside the bar ticked away five seconds . |
| 28 | During the-first round , some groups in the 144-strong field needed almost five hours to go round . |
| 29 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |
| 30 | The eldest son of Henry VII , Arthur , married the daughter of the joint sovereigns of Spain , Catherine of Aragon , but Arthur died only five months later , following which Catherine became betrothed , and later married , the second son , Henry . |