Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " 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 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 4 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 5 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well he said he got through fifty quid . |
| 8 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 12 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |
| 13 | Us v Roveres got about 1 min … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 18 | And he got about 30 inquiries a day . |
| 19 | You got about seven hours tonight I 'll tell you about it . |
| 20 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Remember when long-time lover and former muse Sondra Locke came home to the Beverly Hills mansion they shared for 13 years to find that the locks had been changed ? |
| 23 | The critics were more enthusiastic about Dustin 's performance as the eccentric clerk than about the play , which limped through eleven performances , although it and Dustin won Obie awards — off-Broadway 's equivalent of the Tony . |
| 24 | But McMahon , who passed for 157 yards and a touchdown , ignited the Eagles ' best display for five weeks . |
| 25 | Recalled New York Jets quarterback Ken O'Brien passed for three first-half touchdowns in a 26–14 defeat of Miami Dolphins . |
| 26 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 27 | 291 made off 366 balls , with 38 fours , in just under eight hours does rather speak for itself . |
| 28 | Widnes opener Tim Bostock laid the base with 52 made off 117 balls , with skipper Cockbain cracking 44 off just 54 balls in 42 minutes to keep the run- rate going . |
| 29 | No , we sold off thirty acres to a developer in nineteen seventy-three and that was a lot easier than-working . |
| 30 | Black people are now moving back to the People 's National Movement , which ruled for 30 years before Mr Robinson came to power . |