Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel .
2 With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it .
3 That 's what got me the two years inside , pal .
4 He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor .
5 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
6 No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down .
7 Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night .
8 All right erm did you give me the sixty minute or ninety minute do you know ?
9 You bring me the four hundred and you 'll get what I found .
10 Please accept my application and enrol me into Quality Paperbacks Direct , and send me the five introductory books whose numbers I have printed in the boxes provided .
11 Why should you give me the five thousand when you know the guy yourself ?
12 His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out .
13 The British Association of Industrial Editors awarded me the 1992/93 Chairman 's Award about ten days ago , which was a real surprise and honour — in respect of voluntary input over five years , most notably efforts re Education & Professional Development .
14 He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst .
15 ‘ And you 're sure that this Bermuda company controlled by you will lend me the half-million pounds in cash to buy these shares , at no interest ? ’
16 So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact .
17 So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact .
18 Just give me the twenty pounds . ’
19 Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder .
20 At the turn for home Baby Turk led from Nemain and Acatenango , but behind them the four runners owned by the Aga Khan — Shardari , Dinistan , Darara and Shahrastani — were making their efforts , and over a quarter of a mile out Shardari hit the front , closely pursued by Shahrastani and Darara .
21 But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions .
22 Between them the four countries have some 144,000 elephants .
23 Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected .
24 Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500 .
25 Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms .
26 These do not reflect activity from the eyes individually , but between them the two channels will record an eye movement in any direction .
27 These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater .
28 If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think .
29 I 'll get instead of fifties and fucking we just give them the five pound
30 The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties .
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