Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 2 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 3 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 4 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 5 | eight hours sleep I should think . |
| 6 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 7 | The one hundred and fifty minutes has its entertaining chunks but Little Big Man too self-consciously views the past from a modern standpoint ( there is even a gay Red Indian and bluesy music ) , and the demystification of legends , such as Custer , is done in too simplistic a manner , a process Penn had begun in The Left-Handed Gun . |
| 8 | Its title is ‘ Out of Sight Out of Mind ’ ( 14 February-20 March ) , and director Nicholas Logsdail has selected fifty artists to illustrate his theme . |
| 9 | Only two of Ulster 's 32 clubs play their hockey on grass and Gavin realises that Portrush are caught in a time warp which could hinder the North West outfit 's progress . |
| 10 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 11 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 12 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 13 | Hodgson took 278 minutes to complete his hundred , facing 239 balls and hitting 13 fours and he was still there on 107 out of Gloucestershire 's 208 for two at the close . |
| 14 | But those eight survivors saw it differently — and lived to show that it can be conquered — with the right blend of indestructibility between man and machine . |
| 15 | Eight cars tracking us all this distance . |
| 16 | I told you , eight cars following us was too many for one outfit . |
| 17 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 18 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 19 | What better place for two of our London-based Target ‘ 92 candidates to test their training progress . |
| 20 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 21 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 22 | Many of Britain 's 18,000 dentists say they will refuse to take any more NHS patients if the Government cuts subsidies . |
| 23 | Many of Britain 's 18,000 dentists say they will simply refuse to see any new NHS patients . |
| 24 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 25 | The passage from 2 Corinthians reminds us that if the readiness ( or willingness ) is there , it can be done . |
| 26 | There were few casualties on shore but forty-five seamen lost their lives when their ships sank . |
| 27 | She was receiving oxygen and had to be raised every 30 minutes to enable her to clear sputum from her lungs , a process with which the father assisted . |
| 28 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 29 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 30 | ‘ We will give franchisees all the training in selling and fitting them — it takes about 30 minutes to install one — but we find many people are keen on DIY and would want to do their own . ’ |