Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 2 | Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup . |
| 3 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 4 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 5 | At this moment in Kuwait we have three positions of under-secretary , which is the number two position after the minister , who are Kuwaiti women . |
| 6 | Like chemist and physicist we hope one day to be able to find out whether our icons are truly representative of reality . |
| 7 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
| 8 | On return to Hungary we stopped one night in Satu Mare , the last big frontier town in Rumania . |
| 9 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
| 10 | Robson , 35 , has not seen first-team action for five months due to hamstring and sciatica problems , but last Saturday he played 80 minutes of an A team game . |
| 11 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 12 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 13 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 14 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 15 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 16 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 17 | I use the phrase hypocritical exhortation , because I know Jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so I think the phrase hypocritical exhortation I said three times in relation |
| 18 | During the campaign she found 2 women with whom she could not work , they were dropped for the good of the project . |
| 19 | A lady has just said one of your earlier callers has just said that Council are out of touch well we should n't be out of touch and that is this exercise you have two councillors on here from different parties showing a concern for the trees . |
| 20 | As the organising committee we set three objectives for this conference . |
| 21 | In the F test we have two measures of the degrees of freedom , right , you need to have the degrees of freedom in the numerator N one and in denominator N two . |
| 22 | In the second half we had 2 headers/shots off the line within 1 minute . |
| 23 | Identifying now v=2xy with the potential and u=x2-y2 with the field lines we get two sets of orthogonal hyperbolas . |
| 24 | I.A. Richards has defined metaphor like this : " In the simplest formulation , when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word , or phrase , whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction . " |
| 25 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday then Netley 3-0 . |
| 26 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday , then Netley 3-0 . |
| 27 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 28 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 29 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 30 | On 20 December he sent six pieces of cloth of gold to the abbess and convent at Fontevrault , which he had recently visited . |