Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway .
2 no not we , you I 'm asking Mr you have been doing estimates for four or five years have you ?
3 It said Marble Arch was good erm but because you ca n't park here it gave a that you could do like three or four loads load your car up , come back , load your car up
4 Even insects , which for the most part lay numerous tiny eggs , neatly packaged in tiny sculptured capsules , in one or two instances produce their young alive .
5 Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it .
6 The overriding tendency is to lean towards the percussive aspect , and in one or two cases see who can get past the finishing post first .
7 — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’
8 Polycarp , the second-century Christian leader in Smyrna , faced a hostile mob and quietly refused to go back on his faith in Christ : ‘ Eighty and six years have I served him , and he hath done me no wrong ; how then can I blaspheme my King who saved me ? ’
9 The two trumpets and three trombones give us five parts , but we have no intention of spoiling the harmonic clearness by writing a fifth ‘ real part ’ for one of these .
10 The Act 's 238 sections and 13 schedules make it almost twice as long as the 1944 Education Act and it is certainly comparable in significance .
11 But though the 39-year-old from Garston rules his home with the necessary military-style order , his children seven girls and five boys think he 's the greatest !
12 But though the 39-year-old from Garston rules his home with the necessary military-style order , his children seven girls and five boys think he 's the greatest !
13 Each sampled household is surveyed five times at quarterly intervals so that , every month , 1000 new households enter the study and 1000 households leave it .
14 Most of us find that modest combos between 30 and 60 watts meet our requirements .
15 At two hundred and twenty pounds thank you , two twenty for number two O two .
16 Between 100 and 150 children have it , although some scientists believe that up to 3,000 may be affected .
17 One makes the recipient ant generally ‘ alarmed ’ , another makes it run towards the source , and two others make it bite .
18 ‘ Most of the big clubs with three and four goalkeepers find it difficult to give them a regular game .
19 Ninety five in time , one hundred pounds at one hundr and ten , twenty one thirty in front I 'm bid a hundred and thirty and I shall sell for one hundred and thirty pounds thank you , the lady 's offer , one thirty , front row and for that 's for number six one two .
20 At one , and ten , twenty one thirty at a hundred and thirty pounds standing , at one thirty , all done , at one hundred and thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds thank you sir , the same buyer , one hundred and thirty pounds for eight five four .
21 There is no self-evident motivation for these intrusions , but three hypotheses present themselves :
22 But three factors suggest their stumbling Christmas represents a pit stop rather than the wheels coming off altogether .
23 But two teachers think it is vital
24 But two hospitals say they have no idea whether they 'll be paid .
25 It is not clear whether the condition Smart is describing was purely physical , or of a psychotic nature , but two verses suggest he was mentally as well as physically afflicted in 1756 :
26 But two features strike me as being particularly significant : cross-curricular themes and the planning of syllabuses from 5–16 .
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