Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 2 | The 12 dealers we spoke to had 54 orders between them . |
| 3 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 4 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 5 | The hall just could n't cope and after six songs they retreated to the dressing room . |
| 6 | Briefly , the book describes the six months he spent with a little-known South African Police counter-terrorist unit named Koevoet ( ‘ crowbar ’ ) . |
| 7 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 8 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 9 | Christer Petersson , who was acquitted of the 1986 murder of the Swedish Prime Minister , Mr Olof Palme , is demanding two million kronor ( £213,000 ) compensation for the 10 months he spent in jail , news reports said yesterday . |
| 10 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 11 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 12 | Although the rebels had begun an air ferry with six planes they had at their disposal , it was clear that the rate of transfer thus achieved was much too slow and that the only hope of improving it was to obtain more planes from outside Spain . |
| 13 | For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre . |
| 14 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 15 | For six years he worked in Australia . |
| 16 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 17 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 18 | Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly . |
| 19 | Finally , Shooting the Actor ( RC79 ; 3 hours approx ) is different again : Simon Callow reading his own diary of a long six weeks he spent in Yugoslavia towards the end of 1987 , acting in a film called Manifesto under the direction of Dusan Makavejev , and monitoring daily , in understandably narcissistic vein , the deterioration of their professional relationship . |
| 20 | ‘ I have rebuilt my life , but that day is very special to me as were the 10 days I spent with my husband . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have rebuilt my life but that day is very special to me as were the 10 days I spent with my husband . ’ |
| 22 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 23 | The same Exeter University study found that four of the 10 farms it looked at were making losses on their non-traditional businesses . |
| 24 | In May , he spent about £150,000 on new livery for 10 outlets he bought in April . |
| 25 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 26 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 27 | Three times she stopped before reaching Charing Cross , abruptly breaking the current of pedestrians so people stepped around her , glancing , while she said , ‘ No … ’ and turned back from where she had come , only to turn again , move on . |
| 28 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 29 | Forty-nine houses they wasted in this way . |
| 30 | After three hours we looked for land . |