Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so every year between Christmas Day and New Year 's Day , he takes over the kitchens at Hampton Court with his forty assistants and runs them . |
| 2 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 3 | It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors . |
| 4 | If I put a two there , I 'll have an extra three characters and gives me a full stop and two zeros . |
| 5 | This lasts for three terms and gives you one three hour evening class every week . |
| 6 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 7 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 8 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 9 | On the hearing of the petition , the court may : ( i ) make a bankruptcy order ; or ( ii ) make a bankruptcy order and issue a certificate for the summary administration of the bankrupt 's estate ( where the total debts do not exceed the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , and the bankrupt has not been adjudicated bankrupt before in the last five years nor has he entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement ) ( s 275 ) ; ( iii ) make a bankruptcy order and appoint the former supervisor of a voluntary arrangement as trustee provided that notice of the supervisor 's intention to seek appointment as a trustee was given in the petition and to the creditors ; ( iv ) appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report under s 273 . |
| 10 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 11 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 12 | Every morning and afternoon , a patient aide — who has had some nursing training — visits for two hours and helps her bathe , carry out exercises and walk . |
| 13 | If she does create a new four-bead group , she ‘ wins ’ these four beads and takes them off the board , leaving the hole empty . |
| 14 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 15 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 16 | But the more civilized route to take to Biarritz is via the mouth of the river Adour ; this stretches the journey by four kilometres and makes it twice as enjoyable . |
| 17 | He finds two beers and opens them both . |
| 18 | Steve Gilbert has had a beard for 20 years and says he ca n't imagine life without it . |
| 19 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 20 | The author has condensed a great deal of material into just over 400 pages and presents it in a reasonably readable style . |