Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I once talked to an old retainer of the Usurper who claimed Richard hid five hundred pounds in gold in the great bed there .
2 As far as I recall Fernandel played all five brothers in five linked episodes .
3 The Kyodo news agency reported on May 14 that the Chinese government had requested Japan to provide 700,000 million yen ( about US$5,000 million ) in new loans for resources development projects .
4 But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane .
5 News agencies cited NPFL reports that 1,500-2,000 people had been killed , and said that numbers of refugees had died of exhaustion and hunger trying to reach Monrovia .
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