Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | Births registered during one month in each area were randomly sampled . |
| 3 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 4 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 5 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 6 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 7 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 9 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 10 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 11 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you really think , ’ Alexandra had said earnestly , a pile of linen sheets in her arms , ‘ do you truthfully think for one moment that Aunt Emily would wish this room to be kept like — like a museum ? |
| 13 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 14 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 15 | The tour 's nearly over but there 's still enough time to take in the fabulous sight of Paris illuminated by night , where we will stay for one night . |
| 16 | The warden and his wife , being owners of a Siamese cat , were not overjoyed to see Emily but they reluctantly fed her a saucer of milk , saying that she could stay for one night . |
| 17 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll just stay for one game , ’ Christine said , unable to resist the longing to play . |
| 19 | This locomotive will stay for one week only . |
| 20 | ‘ If it is a close-run thing in any one of these seats , it could make the difference between a win or a lose for one side or the other . ’ |
| 21 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 22 | We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community . |
| 23 | A MINER killed when he was crushed between two coal wagons was forced back down the pits to save his pension . |
| 24 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 25 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 26 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 27 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 28 | Recalled New York Jets quarterback Ken O'Brien passed for three first-half touchdowns in a 26–14 defeat of Miami Dolphins . |
| 29 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 30 | Allowing for 120 proxy votes and some 50 people at the AGM , less than half the AFBD membership bothered to register their opinion . |