Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 2 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 3 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 4 | I could wait another forty eight hours while you wait results of that one you see |
| 5 | said I will know within forty eight hours and we thought we Tuesday you see |
| 6 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |
| 7 | I borrowed fifty P off her the oth , I was going up the school , and I only had four fifty for the I needed fifty P but I did n't have enough change like . |
| 8 | Fifty minutes after she left , at about 3pm , two UFF gunmen walked into the Jon David salon in the west of the city and shot Mr Hughes ( 40 ) several times . |
| 9 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 10 | We 've matched Portadown and Glentoran over 120 minutes so we know we are in with a chance . |
| 11 | Yeah , it takes erm you can get half a dozen crates in you could get eleven gallon if you wanted . |
| 12 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 13 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 14 | Eight months before he had fought as an independent against an official Conservative at a bye-election in the Abbey division of Westminster . |
| 15 | It was eight months before he struck again . |
| 16 | Eight months after she returned to her home in Langley Vale , near Ep som , Surrey , the dream was shattered . |
| 17 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 18 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 19 | The HWIM system had only 1,362 entries whereas we had 4,000 potential candidates in the lexicon ( excluding reduced forms ) , with plans to increase this to 20,000 . |
| 20 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 21 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 22 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 23 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 24 | Eight words that you think would be most suitably des that would most suitably describe the feelings of the apostles on Good Friday , on Easter Day , and on Ascension Day . |
| 25 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
| 26 | What we do is we just leave the two for forty P if you think you 'd like to have a read , read of them . |
| 27 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 28 | Thirty-six hours since he had been roused . |
| 29 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 30 | The confusion cleared up , the paddlers left the beach at 0625 , nearly 12 hours after they had been launched from their submarine . |