Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , she 'ad eight of I had eight of them . |
| 2 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 3 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 4 | What I want you to do is in your couples I want one of you to pretend that one of you 's got a grievance okay , think about it before you do it . |
| 5 | Homicide is the proper word for the word I want one of you to come up with . |
| 6 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 7 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 8 | Has one of them got that ? |
| 9 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 10 | Val found one of her insisting words for Fergus too , one which was askew and inaccurate . |
| 11 | Here is a Messiah who by becoming one of us knows all about human weakness , about human life and development . |
| 12 | They had discovered that Graham had drawn three false passports , in the names of Michael Green , Miles Grant and Mark Gordon , and used one of them to fly to Beirut . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to be here anyway , and it does n't need two of us to cover , so why not take a couple of hours or so ? ’ |
| 14 | The boys had the use of a 25 metre pool , but the girls had to train over 19 metres , though that did n't prevent three of them winning a silver medal at the Olympics in Antwerp . |
| 15 | I then noticed one of them putting on to his fingers … a knuckle-duster . |
| 16 | It 's said one of them had designs on Florence Nightingale . |
| 17 | All the recruits were dressed in blue tracksuits and the Corporal told one of them to show me a bed and explain what was going on . |
| 18 | I produced twelve ! ’ and then of course hubby 's got to do the business on them and once they 're fertilised they re-implant them , maximum six and hope one of them takes . |
| 19 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never seen one of them manage that with you yet . ’ |
| 21 | But by God , ’ he added grimly , ‘ let one of them approach me and I 'll take the pitchfork to them ! ’ |
| 22 | If you see fit , Father Abbot , let one of them appeal for a judgement . |
| 23 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 24 | Trusted by his clients , he 'd persuaded 25 of them to part with a total of £1.3 million . |
| 25 | REPUBLICAN terrorists held a west Belfast family hostage overnight before forcing one of them to hand over several thousand pounds from an off-licence business . |
| 26 | Lot number twenty one Lot twenty one the Japanese cloisonne there we are , we 've got one of them showing one of them showing for you , for a hundred pounds , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , you all finished now , at one twen one thirty , forty one fifty , sixty one sixty against you , coming in ? |
| 27 | Lot number forty one , the brass sticks there we are , we 've got one of them showing for you just one of them showing , I 've got a hundred and fifty offered for it , one fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty one ninety , two hundred I 'm bid I 'm offered two hundred pounds , anybody else at two hundred and selling at two hundred , two twenty , two forty going on ? |
| 28 | Thank you , Lot number seventy six Lot number seventy six Peking er dishes there 's the Peking dishes , there 's seven of them , we 've got one of them showing seven in the for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds , any more at one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty one forty in front , one fifty one sixty , seventy yes ? one eighty , thank you one eighty in front , at a hundred and eighty pounds and selling for one hundred and eighty . |
| 29 | Lot number ninety nine Lot number ninety nine cloisonne vases , we 've got one of them showing there 's one of them showing there , for three hundred pounds and twenty , forty , sixty , three hundred and sixty , any more ? |
| 30 | I drew near to hear one of them say , ‘ He was murdering the Ravel ! |