Example sentences of "[vb past] six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT forty-three , divorced six years ago , I frankly admit I want a man . |
| 2 | Two LEAs provided six schools each and there were four schools from each of the remaining LEAs . |
| 3 | We used six points or ideas in Question Analysis . |
| 4 | The bottle you tasted six months ago is now softer and more appealing ; the one you drank yesterday should have lost its sharp edges by the summer . |
| 5 | Estate trouble — six charged SIX youths are due to appear before Hartlepool magistrates this morning charged with public order offences . |
| 6 | It was n't long before they found six ways . |
| 7 | I tried six times but got turned down because I was n't sixty . |
| 8 | After an attempt to silence him failed , John Buckingham , bishop of Lincoln [ q.v. under Bokyngham ] , in May 1382 ordered the investigation of sixteen articles brought by three friars ; in July Swinderby abjured six heresies and five errors . |
| 9 | In the elections the PAM retained six seats , the SKLP and the Nevis Reformation Party ( NRP ) two each , and the Concerned Citizen 's Movement ( CCM ) one . |
| 10 | His grin wide , he slapped Jack on the back and peered six inches up into the bridegroom 's handsome red face . |
| 11 | Well I taped six hours . |
| 12 | After a broken rudder , an unlucky windshift , a dubious umpires ' penalty and meeting rivals New Zealand and Il Moro di Venezia on the top of their form , the luckless Nippon 's 150lb carbon-fibre boom crumpled six minutes before the start of her second clash with Il Moro . |
| 13 | The Geography Working Group ( DES 1990b ) admitted the difficulty presented by the requirement to divide attainment targets into ten levels , mentioned six aspects of geography in which progression could occur , but did not attempt to justify its detailed ordering of levels . |
| 14 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 15 | He mentioned six years ! |
| 16 | He mentioned six years to me ! |
| 17 | Flight International reported six incidents in which electromagnetic interference from on-board equipment is suspected to have interfered with the flight computers : |
| 18 | For example , K C Wheare , Modern Constitutions ( 1966 ) , Chapter 2 , proposed six classifications of constitutions : ( 1 ) written and unwritten ; ( 2 ) rigid and flexible ; ( 3 ) supreme and subordinate ; ( 4 ) federal and unitary ; ( 5 ) separated powers and fused powers ; ( 6 ) republican and monarchical . |
| 19 | The helicopter rose six feet into the air , tilted forward to gain airspeed , and buried its nose-wheel in the ground . |
| 20 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 21 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 22 | Though he devoted six years of his life to the RPF , de Gaulle virtually ignored it in his memoirs . |
| 23 | The leaflet promised six days of intensive , action-packed skiing in Chamonix with Nigel Shepherd ( UIAGM ) , International Mountain Guide and Andrew Lockerbie ( BASI ) , a British Grade 1 Ski Teacher . |
| 24 | I do n't tell him why I was so keen to accept a commission which involved six weeks in Africa , from a fading and somewhat ridiculous Hollywood producer . |
| 25 | Esquire asked six writers to describe their worst holiday experience |
| 26 | T V and a video we sold six times . |
| 27 | Okay and you made six sets of |
| 28 | Mr Hale won three awards , including the Queen 's Commendation for Brave Conduct , after he made six journeys into the blazing inferno to help save lives . |
| 29 | Aldo Ciccolini made six LPs of Satie piano music and about half of these recordings have been re-issued on a ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ set . |
| 30 | It was he who advised Henry to try to break the unanimity of the English bishops ; he also made six trips to the papal court at Sens to persuade Alexander to confirm the Constitutions of Clarendon . |