Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 2 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 3 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 4 | How many wonem women would you need to do it in six hours ? |
| 5 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 6 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 8 | It 's interest-free , so I 'd expect to get it in eleven months and twenty-nine days from giving notice . ’ |
| 9 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
| 10 | you 've got to do it in four minutes |
| 11 | Got to keep you in one piece , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 13 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 14 | You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time . |
| 15 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 16 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 17 | I do n't yet know what their comments will be and I ‘ m not trying to influence them in one direction or another . |
| 18 | We have to tackle it in two directions , and I think that education is going to be incredibly important in terms of trying to create a more appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , you know , because at the end of the day that 's where people spend an enormous amount of their time . |
| 19 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |