Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He 's at London Poly or something doing two year electric electrici
2 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
3 If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ?
4 Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard .
5 In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons .
6 In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil .
7 These are light aircraft and they mean one thing !
8 She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his .
9 If the district judge intends to rescind , notice is given to the parties and they have 14 days to object , whereupon a hearing is fixed to decide on rescission .
10 But when I go to the shops and I spend seventy pound for a week .
11 The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital :
12 ‘ Supposing he had to plough a field of thirteen acres and he had eight plough-teams working .
13 The movie is out on video today from Paramount Pictures and we have five £70 copies of it to give away .
14 We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty .
15 Now we 've kept it fairly simple on the on the medical practice side and we have three sizes and three sizes only .
16 Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site .
17 ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun .
18 Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel !
19 With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday .
20 hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out
21 ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said .
22 As you know erm we , we take the money here we do n't charge you for the talk but we give ten percent back to your W I so it 's a self funding situation .
23 The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival .
24 So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck .
25 spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go
26 They 're ninety nine pence and I paid thirty pence for four today .
27 You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ?
28 He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop .
29 The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain .
30 North deals and opens one club , East passes and you respond one heart .
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