Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 've put your marks every two squares , but you do n't need to write all the numbers in you could just write say erm two , four , six , eight or you could just write five , ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five . |
| 2 | A single customs tariff ( set as a pre-condition by the European Communities for reaching a commercial accord with the GCC ) would come into effect by 1993 and there would eventually be monetary unification . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct . |
| 4 | I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen . |
| 5 | Practise tying the following knots with your Six and you 'll soon be so good at them , you 'll be able to tie them with your eyes closed . |
| 6 | It was uncertain whether she was offering him tea or dinner or nothing , since the time she gave was a quarter to six and she would never have had anyone to drinks . |
| 7 | A draw is now made out of all the entries received each month to select the winning hole-in-one and we will then present the winner with two cases of Wolfschmidt Kummel . |
| 8 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 9 | ‘ So the repairs programme was begun in 1986 and it will probably continue until the end of this decade . |
| 10 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 11 | The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing . |
| 12 | Well we 'd like to see at lea at least down to fifty but we 'd really like to probe and push towards forty if we could . |
| 13 | Now what 's going to happen along the right hand axis we go up to twenty and so we can go along there in twos and it 'll just fit on . |
| 14 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 15 | By the time I got back home that seven pounds felt like seventy and I shall never forget , when I was about eight years old , with only a few yards to go , I dropped the precious parcel . |
| 16 | ‘ And if it is Number One for Christmas , it might become an anthem for 1992 and someone might actually think about it . |
| 17 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 18 | Neither of them will start work before the age of 25 and they will probably retire by 50 . |
| 19 | Home Rule and Welsh Disestablishment would become law in the autumn of 1914 and there could now be no election to stop this from taking place . |
| 20 | And there 's another ten and we 'll just about fit it on if we go right up to the edge of the paper sort of leave one square . |
| 21 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 22 | I was a party to all these decisions other than B. v. B. ( Contempt Committal ) [ 1991 ] 2 F.L.R. 588 cited and relied upon in Howes v. Howes , 142 N.L.J. 753 but I should also refer to two recent decisions to which I was not a party , but to one of which Scott L.J . |
| 23 | An Arsenal player could be the genetically engineered bastard son of a dangerous liaison between Luke Perry and Paul Newman circa 1966 and he 'd still look like Pee Wee Herman in his pyjamas if he was playing away |
| 24 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 25 | The girl was only twelve and she 'll never walk again . |
| 26 | Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I ca n't do a thing with him . |
| 27 | Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there . |
| 28 | I 'd done five but I could only remember one . |
| 29 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 30 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |