Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 2 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 3 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 4 | You got about seven hours tonight I 'll tell you about it . |
| 5 | THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed . |
| 6 | Regular programmes began in July 1951 , when the station transmitted for one hour only , three days per week . |
| 7 | Bristol led after five minutes when Dziekanowski held off a challenge before centering accurately to the far post , where Rosenior headed powerfully home to mark his first full appearance for the club . |
| 8 | I stopped about two metres down from the summit and quietly cocked the gun , inspecting the composite steel and nylon pellet before placing it in the chamber and snicking the gun closed . |
| 9 | I stopped about twenty yards away from the shed , appalled at the scene of utter desolation and neglect . |
| 10 | An incident occurred during one session when the children were drawing together . |
| 11 | We moved off two hours later , through a town with white buildings with red shutters and dogs asleep in the road . |
| 12 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |
| 13 | To that extent , the Circular received a cautious welcome in the art world , but nothing very concrete occurred until three years later when , on 1 September 1974 , the NCDAD merged with the CNAA . |
| 14 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 15 | Erm no we moved in eighteen months ago . |
| 16 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
| 17 | ‘ We moved in nine years ago after my parents , so everything was already well established , ’ says Mrs Weedon . |
| 18 | As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’ |
| 19 | Bryony moved in two years ago , then I came with the kids , and a year later to the day , Clare moved in . |
| 20 | There , watching TV , was the mother she fled from two years earlier to escape a ceaseless round of drunken beatings and ill-treatment . |
| 21 | ‘ He staggered in ten minutes ago with a broken tail . |
| 22 | He also reported on eight occasions where departments had spent more than the sums authorised by Parliament and had incurred excess votes . |
| 23 | He referred to two documents where the Yugoslavs gave undertakings about treatment of repatriated citizens . |
| 24 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 25 | The first occurred on 11 April when Tahir Seyhan , an official of the People 's Labour Party in Dargecit in the province of Mardin , died after four days under interrogation . |
| 26 | ‘ Because it never occurred to one person not to keep that running total . ’ |
| 27 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 28 | The decisive goal came after 57 minutes when Holdsworth 's centre was missed by Mimms who was under pressure from Nogan . |
| 29 | The first shock of the night came after 10 minutes when Darren Boughey scored a fine solo goal for the part-timers . |
| 30 | They still had some close escapes , the most important of which came after 49 minutes when midfielder Michael Thomas beat the keeper with his cross-shot only to see the ball come off the foot of a defender on the line . |