Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house .
2 the sizes though , they usually only have them in about a three and a four do n't they ?
3 In other words , there are marvellous projects going on which really stimulate the interest of everybody , and it 's , the Engineering Council 's still trying to push them along into the twenty first century itself .
4 My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell .
5 The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me .
6 Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ?
7 Erm what , what we do today is to way go back over some of the ideas about land reform and then carry them through to the ninety fifty er Agrarian Reform Bill .
8 He did a double stint of exercise until he was clammy with globules of sweat and then sluiced himself over from the two cold jugs of water Christine had brought him up after breakfast .
9 Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider .
10 Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit .
11 He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships .
12 In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’
13 And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets .
14 Entering the Portal will transport you back to the five doors where you can visit another country and city .
15 The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child .
16 What happens in practice is often something in between the two extremes outlined here .
17 and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm .
18 Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds .
19 Apparently , one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction .
20 By which I mean at least one out of every two issues .
21 Aha , one out of every two issues .
22 But a consultant says the infection only causes problems in one out of every 50,000 births , so screening every pregnant woman would n't be practical :
23 … This means in practice that one out of every twenty samples will fail to comply with the standard and the Authority will be at risk from somebody , some member of the public , prosecuting . ’
24 One out of every three restaurants had a problem with employee and customer slips during the past year , most occurring in the kitchen
25 One out of every seven Palestinians injured from live ammunition , beatings or teargas is a woman .
26 After all it is the one out of the six that we 've spent on might be significant in itself .
27 One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion .
28 Ian Woosnam 's 69 put him on two under , Colin Montgomerie is one under after a 68 , while defending champion Nick Faldo ( 69 ) and Sam Torrance ( 70 ) are level par , Peter Baker ( 70 ) two over and Mark James ( 71 ) four over .
29 ‘ I ‘ discovered ’ them back in the mid-'70s , playing in a club called Cinderella 2 .
30 ‘ As thou canst see , Rome sends them out by the dozen .
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