Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 2 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 3 | But her mind presented her with two stiff figures lying side by side , not even holding hands , perhaps not even saying a polite goodnight . |
| 4 | Zack told him in three angry sentences . |
| 5 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 6 | Economic pressures belong with Joanna 's mother , whose husband left her with three school-going children ; Helen 's lecturing post in another country is a career move . |
| 7 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 8 | The visitors were 82–2 but two run outs followed by a four wicket burst from Mannion reduced them to 94 all out . |
| 9 | Damian followed her in three quick strides , reached for her . |
| 10 | Taking care with her napkin , Sarella folded it into eight equal parts . |
| 11 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 12 | My friend bought it for two hundred pounds second-hand . |
| 13 | Danny called her at two that afternoon . |
| 14 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 15 | The earlier discussion of the various forms of interference theory left us with two main candidates ( above , p. 116 ) and both still remain possible . |
| 16 | With the fiver subsidy got it to thirty six pound a ton . |
| 17 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 18 | It was after Frank Hoddinott joined us in 1923 that Palace fans ( all too briefly ) saw Whitworth at his best . |
| 19 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 20 | Then , as Guy reached her in one long stride , it no longer mattered . |
| 21 | The IRA bomb in Hyde Park left him with twenty serious shrapnel wounds . |
| 22 | Mr Christopher 's trip took him to six Arab countries , Jordan , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Lebanon , and Israel . |
| 23 | At Lincoln Crown Court today Judge Richard Hutchinson who 'd adjourned the case for reports sentenced him to two consecutive eighteen month prison terms . |
| 24 | Mr. Watkinson referred us to three other decided cases in support of the contrary view , but to my mind they do not assist him . |
| 25 | Pain hit him in one intolerable wave and he blacked out . |
| 26 | The five children of the household — all under twelve — sat staring at him and from time to time discussed him with one another in rapid French , which in spite of his recent visit to the country as a ski soldier , totally escaped his capacity to understand . |
| 27 | The gentleman here in the front had it at twenty four . |