Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 2 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 3 | So we get to work on them and forty eight hours later we have the whole ring , including one Gerhard Mayer , twenty nine , from West Berlin , their linkman into the local drug community . |
| 4 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 5 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 6 | Fifty minutes later he had 53 from 35 balls , and thirty-one minutes after that , from another 21 balls , he had 103 ; the fastest century in terms of balls received in the history of Test cricket , 56 balls to Jack Gregory 's 67 against South Africa in 1921–2 , although Gregory took only 70 minutes while Richards took 81 minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 8 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 9 | ‘ Eight months ago it happened ! ’ said Gabriel . |
| 10 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 12 | My son Mark was eight months when he started and Rachel was 2½ . |
| 13 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 14 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 15 | Eleven months later she bore his son . |
| 16 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 17 | But 12 minutes later he got on the end of a superb cross from Paul Dalton . |
| 18 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 19 | ‘ A dreadful tyrant ’ is the verdict of Lev Markiz , founder-conductor of the Moscow Soloists — ‘ the whole orchestra began to tune their instruments an hour before the rehearsal was due to start , and 30 minutes later them sat there with instruments tuned , ready to begin ’ . |
| 20 | When he returned 30 minutes later he saw their truck in a ditch , and both women gone . |
| 21 | Their football was a credit to Hand , and Cecere ensured that it would at least be rewarded by an extra 30 minutes when he collected Maskell 's pass and tucked the ball behind Steve Sutton . |
| 22 | In Oz13 and It33 a letter from a ‘ surrealist group ’ including jazz singer/writer George Melly was published giving twenty-one reasons why they needed ‘ Danny the Red ’ Cohn-Bendit , the media 's nominee for ‘ leadership ’ of the May Events . |
| 23 | Forty minutes later I parked outside a slate-grey office block in the business centre . |
| 24 | 12 months later she developed a pleural effusion and probable lung metastases . |
| 25 | They say that 30 years ago everyone recognised it instantly as belonging to the late of Orwell Lodge ( 's step great-grandmother ) . |
| 26 | John Butterworth joined the company as an apprentice 30 years ago he says Westcott has changed beyond all recognition . |
| 27 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 28 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 29 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 30 | that Jackie will tell you the same , I told her mother anything from thirty to forty years ago I said , that do n't matter some toss what political power they get in power you 'll find the unions will run the country |