Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 2 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 3 | there , which I got off one of my |
| 4 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 5 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 6 | I referred earlier to the effort that we made during 1992 to make ourselves both more efficient and more profitable . |
| 7 | But the profits in which he shared during 1840–44 did not come up to expectations , and after the disappointment of the low profits on A Christmas Carol , published on commission , he broke temporarily with Chapman & Hall , and turned to their printers , Bradbury & Evans , as his new publishers . |
| 8 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 9 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 10 | Well he said he got through fifty quid . |
| 11 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 12 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 13 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 14 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 15 | You got about sixteen |
| 16 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |
| 17 | I got about fifty of them if you want them . |
| 18 | Us v Roveres got about 1 min … |
| 19 | you got about four . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They got about six or seven bars of chocolate as the one the joint ones they got loads of them |
| 22 | Y you got about twelve and sixpence a w a year . |
| 23 | She got about two hundred thousand and a life interest in another two hundred thou . |
| 24 | I got about two left in bunker |
| 25 | We got about two did n't we ? |
| 26 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 27 | You got about five of them went round giving them to other people just so you could say that to Chris did n't you ? |
| 28 | I got about fifteen |
| 29 | I mean , we have n't done so far but we , that 's what but , this is stuff we got about hundred |
| 30 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |