Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our clearance is at 1300 ft I am very quickly levelling out and using the power to achieve the standard 120 kt cruise you expect from a Squirrel . |
| 2 | Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% . |
| 3 | Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it . |
| 4 | Just think what it will be like doing the high jump with 50,000 people watching you ! ’ |
| 5 | Motorola Inc is expanding on both sides of the Pacific : it is now fitting out its built but so far unused chip plant in Chandler , Arizona and will hire 700 people to staff it , and it will build a design centre in Sendai , northern Japan , to strengthen its design of chips in Japan ; Nippon Motorola Ltd said it will invest $44.5m in the centre , due to be finished around 1995 , and most of the products designed in the centre will be sold in the domestic Japanese market . |
| 6 | And if there 's anything surprising about that results , it 's that nineteen people say they 've never taken any kind of drug ! |
| 7 | A large estate car or van will be needed to transport the coffin , and four to six people to carry it . |
| 8 | However , the film must be taken to +0.5 V to make it positive . |
| 9 | Cancelling fractions is when somebody ha gives you somebody says erm you say , How much pizza did you get ? three twelfths. three twelfths make it a bit more simple oh well it 's just the same as three three twelfths is |
| 10 | My father employed three people to create them . |
| 11 | Mind you , I do n't think they 're married either of them because she comes under the name Miss and well her name 's Estelle and he 's Paul , but she 's known as because I 've had two or three people ask me about her because she , she deals in insurance . |
| 12 | He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were , at least in part , cream-coloured . |
| 13 | It usually takes about three people to hold him . |
| 14 | Got all the way there , he 'd been told that they 'd help er him out , cos they 're big heavy things , you need at least two to three people to get them out . |
| 15 | Well I wonder how many people here , I mean ninety three people say they ha , they th they occasionally do get depressed , I wonder if you ever have taken er , mood controlling drugs such as tranquillizers ? |
| 16 | And after half an hour of discussing the good things and the less good things about the royal family the vote , apart from a few abstentions , we have worried a few people fo fo fo forty three people say we think that it should be a republic , fifty four no , so there is there 's a swing factor in the middle . |
| 17 | Erm it 's about three quid to send them Parcel Post . |
| 18 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 19 | Gon na cost about sixteen quid to have it repaired . |
| 20 | And what they did n't understand was the basic experience of any trade union branch which says if you wan na get six or eight people elected you do n't put fourteen up . |
| 21 | Well forty eight people know they wrote away for something . |
| 22 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 23 | Throttles are advanced to 13,000 rpm to start taxying , but once rolling , 10,000 rpm keeps us moving nicely . |
| 24 | ‘ We dropped by t'see how the invalids were , but I kin see you 're both well on the way to recovery . |
| 25 | INDIAN police have arrested more than 27,000 people to prevent them attending a banned Hindu nationalist rally , and the right-wing party that had organised it said yesterday it would sue the government for repression . |
| 26 | When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in . |
| 27 | One buck gets you ten that he 'll be eating out of your hand by the second beer . ’ |
| 28 | The climb-out is shallow ( about 300 ft/min ) and flown at 50kts with the engine pulled back to 2250 rpm to conserve it a little — max rpm ( and thus 38hp ) is at 2625 rpm . |
| 29 | Yes , but Trading Standards are part of Public Protection , and if you lump the whole of Public Protection , you do n't get five percent do you ? |
| 30 | What a pity then , that only a meagre 11,768 people watched it . |