Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone . |
| 2 | Intel Corp says it has now received over 30 orders for its Paragon parallel supercomputer , which began shipping in September , and Thinking Machines Corp , Cambridge , says it has 20 CM-5s already installed with customers ; it just sold a $15.8m CM-5 to the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing . |
| 3 | An enquiry has been ordered into the Bulgarian international 's background after Ipswich were told he had played 12 games for his country . |
| 4 | The ‘ participants ’ will be 30 children for whom assessment has been requested on account of emotional and behavioural difficulties ( EBD ) , together with the professionals involved in each child 's assessment . |
| 5 | In the reign of Henry III Simon son of Norman , forester of fee of Kingswood in the forest of Essex , had under him five walking foresters , each guarding his own ward : they paid him annually sums ranging from 5s to 2 marks for their perquisites , which included the right to levy cheminage . |
| 6 | Kaub and Sullivan each received a commuted one-year prison sentence on June 7 ; on May 12 Michael Savaides , also of Teledyne , had received a commuted sentence of six months for his part in the affair . |
| 7 | EURO-QUEST 10 questions for your MEP |
| 8 | Prudential , the UK 's largest life company , has announced restated 1991 results for its life and pensions business using the accruals method . |
| 9 | A 20-YEAR-OLD Belfast man has been jailed for eight years for his part in an armed robbery of more than £6,000 from an Ulster Bank . |
| 10 | However , Hale proceeded regardless , and on 9th June 1863 , he obtained fifty-two signatures for his treaty . |
| 11 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 12 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 13 | There were three reasons for their protest . |
| 14 | With his ball unplayable , Faldo took a penalty drop before lurching to a six , while Norman chipped to three feet for his birdie four to go six under par . |
| 15 | I 'LL geev you three camels for your wife , ’ said the toothless street vendor with a lecherous look on his face . |
| 16 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 17 | Claudette , from Liverpool 15 , believes she was 75 per cent to blame for the breakdown of her marriage , but could n't forgive her husband of 21 years for his adultery . |
| 18 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 19 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 20 | Some get standing ovations for being promoted to manager — to be a manager you need to recruit three demonstrators for your unit . |
| 21 | I 'll ask you a question , if you get it right , without any help from your team or anybody else , you 're going to get three points for your team . |
| 22 | Since I 'm buying Three Choirs for my shops then I obviously rate it highly . |
| 23 | Jacob has already sent the three droves for his brother on ahead . |
| 24 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 25 | Sir , Three times three cheers for your achievement with the latest issue of Transport . |
| 26 | Three cheers for our kids who made the grade |
| 27 | Pupils from Grangefield Comprehensive , Newton Aycliffe dropped in with a measly 70,000 votes for their Miss Foster yesterday . |
| 28 | The lighting of three candles for our intentions , the readings from Isaiah accompanied by quiet music , the distribution of tiny paper scrolls with a prayer of blessing inside each , all contributed to my renewal . |
| 29 | Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest . |
| 30 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |