Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] that [verb] [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 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 6 | Ashcroft Noble was part-owner of the three weeklies that published his ‘ Paul Pelican ’ articles and accepted Thomas 's early essays ; and he was also connected with the Edinburgh firm of Blackwood that was to publish those essays in book form . |
| 7 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 8 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 9 | Now also , knowing that there 's only just over five hundred or just six hundred members of the Liberal Democrats , in the eight constituencies that comprise our Euro constituency , there will be many benefits that can come off a Euro campaign in terms of membership , in terms of helpers , in in terms of morale and generally raising our profile , just through press contacts and things like that . |
| 10 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 11 | This system will analyse credit usage , leverage ( percentage of credit limit used ) , location , age and other variables to place the individual into one of 64 segments that define their credit behaviour . |
| 12 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 13 | The spec was not solely Sun 's work , as the piece implied , nor ‘ rubberstamped ’ by the twelve companies that wrote it . |
| 14 | OR IF YOU LIKE , YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN BY ADDING ANY OF THE FIFTEEN TOPPINGS THAT TAKE YOUR FANCY . |
| 15 | There was no coherent ideology embracing the entire middle-class , but there were two ideologies that subsumed its more active sectors . |
| 16 | Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 17 | Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 18 | Ally McCoist , who invited Malta to take that with the two goals that took his tally for Scotland to 15 , also thrived on the good service provided by Pat Nevin , John Collins and Paul McStay . |
| 19 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 20 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 21 | She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door . |
| 22 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 23 | Once you are up and going , you should select your course out through the waves aiming to jump on only one or two waves that take your fancy . |
| 24 | He turned the truck in the direction he had pointed , Myeloski once again walking in front of the two headlights that lit his path for him . |
| 25 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 26 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
| 27 | Alcohol and the smell of cauliflowers were the only two things that worried her . |
| 28 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 29 | ‘ The two monsters that brought me here , ’ I answered . |
| 30 | Then there followed four episodes that banished his depression . |