Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adj] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Colbeck Collection there is a manuscript of about 2,300 words which Edward wrote in 1895 ; it is corrected in his much later I handwriting and is entitled ‘ Dad ’ . |
| 2 | I was taking my very independent three year old daughter for a walk and I asked her to hold my hand . |
| 3 | And , last but not least , there is IBM with its rather idiosyncratic 4250 ElectroCompositor which spark erodes either special paper to create positives or an aluminium coating on film for negatives . |
| 4 | Labour 's attack on the under-funding of hospitals and long waiting lists for patients awaiting operations had been effective in its otherwise ineffectual 1987 election campaign . |
| 5 | It 'll cost you about three hundred pound to go up there and back . |
| 6 | Not only do we do that at United Biscuits , we also second one manager for every two thousand employees . |
| 7 | A mother of three said she had tried to comfort her very frightened eight year old son , and this is a quote , ‘ he turned round and said ‘ but how can everything be all right , mum , people are going to start letting off bombs at each other , are n't they ? ’ |
| 8 | he only last one lap did n't he ? |
| 9 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 10 | So that anything over five thousand pound you get another fifteen percent in other words forty five percent commission . |
| 11 | I think you 're allowed you 're allowed to make thirty pound a week profit fifteen hundred pound a year , anything over fifteen hundred pound on your business they got ta pay tax . |