Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 2 | Anyway , this somebody must of given her the idea , I think it was our local doctor oh you 'll be alright you know , you have to have to have them in forty eight hours you see so |
| 3 | Although we had only a very limited range of local newspapers , half ( 69 ) of the 138 cases which appeared in only one newspaper appeared only in the local newspapers . |
| 4 | one hour and eleven minutes it said on there |
| 5 | As a member of the Advanced Volunteer Foundation , Gail was one of 750 Canadians who helped out at the fourth annual International Amateur Athletic Foundation indoor track and field meeting . |
| 6 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 7 | Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel . |
| 8 | The occasion was a joint one , the presentation of ‘ wings ’ to 12 flyers who have just qualified , in the presence of five surviving Second World War pilots . |
| 9 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 10 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 11 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 12 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 13 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 14 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 15 | The second round of voting on May 8 allocated most of the 134 seats which had not been decided in the first round [ see p. 38887 ] , and confirmed the electoral victory of supporters of President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani . |
| 16 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 17 | Mr Woodley said the ballot had already achieved its objection of bringing pressure on the receivers and the Government to sanction immediate payments of at least the minimum state redundancy payoff to the 1,600 workers who have already lost their jobs . |
| 18 | He pointedly did not release the 539 delegates he has already amassed . |
| 19 | Well er , probably about er in them days they used to call them twelve score and then so it 'd be twelve , two 's or something that 's two hundred forty pounds I suppose like , you know and er , but most of the people er . |
| 20 | POLICE are aiming to track down 30 athletes who hurdled over closed barriers at a railway level-crossing moments before a train hurtled through . |
| 21 | This group included 12 patients who have previously been treated with oral antibiotics for various reasons , six patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease , six patients with associated inflammatory disease of the oesophagous and/or stomach and/or duodenum . |
| 22 | The mean extent of gastric metaplasia in 39 patients who were treated continuously ( >1 year ) with H 2 receptor antagonists was 19% ( range 0–88% ) and 15% ( range 0–88% ) in 53 patients who did not take these drugs . |
| 23 | I cycled the spectacular coast road ( Highway 1 , but not very busy ! ) to Cheviot , an easier ride than anticipated because Ringer 's ‘ Cycle Touring in NZ ’ ( the cyclist 's bible ) mentioned a strenuous climb to 800 metres which turned out to be 800 feet ! |
| 24 | Of the 22 respondents who did not support a scoreboard , 20 took the trouble to spell out the reasons for their objections . |
| 25 | Removal of the 2a 1 + 1b 1 + 1b 2 stretches which have already been identified shows that they have symmetries 2a 1 + 1a 2 + 1b 1 + 1b 2 . |
| 26 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 27 | At fifty feet he levelled out , slipped the safety off the spear gun , and swam slowly round the coral outcrop . |
| 28 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ In the first 45 minutes we did very well . |
| 30 | In 1971 there were 483,000 divorcees who had not remarried , compared to the 1989 figure of 2.4 million . |