Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It will be mainly concerned with pensions , education and health care , because there are well-developed private and occupational services in all three areas and because state services in them make up about three-quarters of state welfare spending .
2 I repeat again in 1992 our major aim as a business is to improve the service we sell so well ; that we provide to our customers .
3 I mean obviously for thirty
4 There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them .
5 I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group .
6 Yes , it uses eight watts against a hundred , well I say probably against seventy five , eight watts instead of seventy five and given us the same amount of light out .
7 I hold on with one hand , landing in a fast-moving heap that upsets the sledge 's balance .
8 No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself
9 From there I walk down to one of the main boulevards .
10 I teed off with 15 clubs , one too many .
11 ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’
12 I look up to one particular drug dealer .
13 She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent .
14 ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed .
15 I look back on 1975 as a year of the most painful self-scrutiny .
16 In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs .
17 Armed with buckets , nets and battery airpumps , I set off with two willing helpers aged nine and eleven to the seaside .
18 I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly !
19 I get up at eight every morning .
20 But erm , now I get up at eight o'clock every morning , and this morning I slept in till ten , but that 's cos I was up till four , working on Thursday night .
21 I get up at six every morning to do Midnight .
22 yeah , but I get up at five
23 I get up at seven .
24 If I , if I get up at seven
25 Until I get back at one !
26 If I go ten times as fast , I get there in one tenth of the time .
27 How comes I get down to four then ?
28 I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head .
29 If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman .
30 My mum wakes up and I wake up at two , because she 's pottering around in the kitchen , , banging about a bit more than usual .
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