Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | Several times he lent Brian and me a 410 shotgun and took us shooting along the shore , and when we got back told his skinner to stuff the birds we had shot ; I was thrilled by these expeditions . |
| 3 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 4 | And they got their wish — one goal against Sweden in a 2-1 defeat that ended their Championship . |
| 5 | Hexham magistrates yesterday placed him on probation for 12 months and ordered him to pay £20 costs . |
| 6 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 7 | It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali . |
| 8 | The opposition SDPJ failed to repeat its 1989 triumph , although it won 22 seats and maintained its pre-election strength of 69 upper house members . |
| 9 | The count stayed with the holiday party for 12 days but said he left when his relationship with Mellor became strained . |
| 10 | COLOMBO ( Reuter ) — Pro-government vigilantes hunting left-wing rebels shot dead 22 people and dumped their bodies on roadsides in central Sri Lanka . |
| 11 | We started off swimming 20 — 30 lengths and worked our way up to the 100 . |
| 12 | But yesterday he gave Largue , of Acklam Road , Middlesbrough , a community service order for 100 hours and ordered him to pay £500 costs . |
| 13 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 14 | One pretty senior middle manager estimated the reorganisation has cost DEC six months and said it ‘ better be over ’ by March or there 's no telling what the outlook will be . |
| 15 | Coleraine manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We might have lost by six goals but got our act together . |
| 16 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 17 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 18 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 19 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 20 | McAllister had six birdies and showed his determination to improve on his 1993 best placing of 31st , with a remarkable par-saving effort at the difficult second hole . |
| 21 | I cut out all the short stories from nearly 100 magazines and pasted them into a collection of scrapbooks . |
| 22 | Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty . |
| 23 | ‘ The aircraft then turned into the Harbour , climbed to sixty feet , identified a ship of approximately 5,000 to 8,000 tons and attacked it . |
| 24 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 25 | Last week Mr Takeshita admitted that , in addition to the 12,000 shares that came his way , Recruit slipped him ¥20m just before his bid for the prime ministership in 1987 . |
| 26 | Tao Chu , in contrast , seemed younger than his eight years and wore his heart embroidered like a peacock on his sleeve . |
| 27 | But , predictably enough , the three turned up with three moose and bargained them all aboard , one on each wing , the third across the fuselage . |
| 28 | Remember that you can always select a word by double clicking and a paragraph by clicking three times but did you know that you can extend these further ? |
| 29 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's ironic that it should be a colleague who caused the wound , because I have now toured New Zealand three times and watched their style of rucking . |