Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 2 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 3 | Data General , which offered NeXT workstations for use with its AViiON servers for a time , says it is working with NeXT to make NeXTstep available on its line of Dasher II 486 personal computers . |
| 4 | For brief moments that day she could almost believe she was talking about third parties . |
| 5 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 6 | So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after . |
| 7 | The Lions believe they were robbed by first and last-minute decisions from Australian referee Brian Kinsey which gifted New Zealand eight points in a cliffhanging match . |
| 8 | I reckon he was trapped at last , like a good many others . ’ |
| 9 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 10 | Assuming they are accepted into next year 's Associate Members Cup — the decision will be made in July — the Scottish Cricket Union 's plans are well in hand and involve the players being away from home for five successive weeks . |
| 11 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 12 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 13 | Graeme Wright , editor of Wisden since 1986 , announced he was quitting at last night 's launch of the 1992 edition , held at the East India Club , London . |
| 14 | I think they are settling for next season hoping that Leeds do n't have a terrible season this year . |
| 15 | The only way to stop them is to get in first or persuade them that it 's a big mistake ; either way you have to fight . |
| 16 | In its present form it was rebuilt in mid-eighteenth century and is one of Europe 's greatest baroque buildings , with the monastery church embodied as centrepiece of the great facade . |
| 17 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |