Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | The second set took just 24 minutes as Ivanisevic lost only four points on serve , banged down eight aces and broke Sampras 's serve twice . |
| 3 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 4 | Following reconsideration of each issue in the light of comments received , the IASC issued a Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements in July 1990 , which sets out 21 E 32 proposals which will be incorporated in revised IASs without substantive changes , and five E 32 proposals that have been deferred pending further work on financial instruments . |
| 5 | The income is 168 hours and remember you can not increase this even in times of severe inflation — you have all the time there is . |
| 6 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 7 | Capital transfer tax was abolished in the 1986 Budget and has been replaced by inheritance tax which , for those who can remember it , seems largely modelled on the old estate duty . |
| 8 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 9 | These contain eight projects and provide material for 100–120 hours ' teaching . |
| 10 | Steve , who has won the Isle of Man race eight times and holds the outright lap record , will be arriving with his latest bike for the 1992 racing season . |
| 11 | It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times . |
| 12 | Simply boil for about eight minutes and serve with parmesan cheese . |
| 13 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |
| 14 | From the seamless opening shot — which lasts eight minutes and has no cuts — the themes and characters of The Player are laid before us with masterful skills as Altman glides and circles the camera around a studio car park , catching snatches of information and fragments of conversation ( a film is being pitched with the description ‘ Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate ’ . |
| 15 | Many families would therefore rent a four room house at ten or eleven shillings and let one room at two or three shillings . |
| 16 | A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch . |
| 17 | The 5th Issue index-linked certificates , also tax-exempt , pay the accumulated increase in the Retail Prices Index each year plus 4.5 p.c. if held for five years . |
| 18 | They yield 6.2 p.c. and stand on a historic multiple of 12½ . |
| 19 | We did a back to back test on about eight speakers and found that two were drastically different from the rest , and that was the normal 25-watt speaker and the Celestion Vintage 30 . |
| 20 | Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus . |
| 21 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 22 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 23 | They meet for 48 hours every eight months and have a rotating leadership for group sessions . |
| 24 | ONE of the Everton greats , Tommy Lawton , had a testimonial match at Goodison Park on November 6 , 1972 , which was attended by 12,209 fans and raised £6,300 . |
| 25 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 26 | Ontario Homes sold 120 homes and closed 81 homes , as well as some significant land sales , to achieve a 7 per cent return on its assets . |
| 27 | In Europe , in 1981 , there were over 500 databases and databanks available from over 50 hosts . |
| 28 | If it goes ahead it 'll cover nearly three hundred and fifty acres and consist of thirty million tons of coal . |
| 29 | Dutch police have already charged eleven fans and deported nearly two hundred . |
| 30 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |