Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] and [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again my sincere apologies for my absence , as I explained last September , this weekend is my mother 's 80th birthday and it falls to me to host a celebration and to entertain friends and relatives during the weekend . |
| 2 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 3 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 4 | I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick . |
| 5 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 6 | Coventry used to be one of the best teams in England … they 've won the cup twice … now they 're in the second division and they had a hard time on saturday … five penalty kicks saw them through … with three tries … none of which were that dazzling … it was Hereford who entertained … their last try was something special something to remember … |
| 7 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 8 | ‘ We deserved at least a draw — their goal was the first strike in the second half and they had only one or two before the break . |
| 9 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 10 | Oakland 's Dave Henderson scored the A's first run with a homer in the second inning and they scored their second on a single by Dave Parker . |
| 11 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 12 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 13 | ‘ Colin Harvey bought Mike Newell for the start of my second season and I ended up in the reserves , with all the publicity and pressure that brought . |
| 14 | and play it and it 'll just go on forever , and like my one just past the second song and it 's stuck |
| 15 | At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron . |
| 16 | This is my second letter and it serves notice that should it provoke no reply it will be followed to Keswick by its author , bent on meeting his old and gallant friend Colonel Hope , who he had heard was passing through those parts for a short while to expedite some business before moving on to another country . ’ |
| 17 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 18 | Madness yet again , as he , a penniless artist 17 years my senior , proposed on our second date and I said yes ! |
| 19 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 20 | Get to the second year and you get £30 . |
| 21 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 22 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 23 | and then listen to it the second time and you go , ah ! |
| 24 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 26 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 27 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 28 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 29 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 30 | The pressure — it 'll be off them , they are no longer champions — but let's remember they did finish in fourth place and I 've got a feeling that they 're not giving anything away at Oxford Speedway , because they never do . |