Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid |
| 32 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 33 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 34 | Can I ask that you agree on eight one A to grant them twenty-one Saturday city centre permits , and you 're clear that you 've left out NovaSports and AvaRag , and you understand why ? |
| 35 | The findings show that Labour would win 76 seats from the Conservatives , giving them 305 seats overall , six or seven more than the Tories , but 21 short of an overall majority , with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power . |
| 36 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 37 | Anyway that 's , that 's on , that 's only a three hour course that 's running for thirteen weeks , which will cost me forty pounds , but I 'll take |
| 38 | She still owe me forty pence . |
| 39 | cos you see I get she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday |
| 40 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 41 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 42 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 43 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 44 | Having three daughters and an ‘ extended ’ family , I started knitting for them 30 years ago , but not spending a lot of money . |
| 45 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 46 | Their secrets return to haunt them 12 years later when bodies are discovered buried in the grounds . |
| 47 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 48 | ‘ Give me 700 words — make that 750 . |
| 49 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 50 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 51 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 52 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 53 | Yes , but we have n't had them forty years . |
| 54 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 55 | Wearing hankies in the ends of your boots because you 'd bought them 2 sizes too big , and they were still floppy , with those grey flecked Millets hiking socks on ! |
| 56 | So it 's off erm six foot six inch , what is yours eleven foot ? |
| 57 | Yeah she said so she gives I fifty P so I paid the dinner . |
| 58 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 59 | Erm , I am tentatively erm provisionally very hopeful , but I am fearful of a number of things , I three observations in respect , observations in respect of them . |
| 60 | Cor bloody hell she give I three questions the other day . |