Example sentences of "[verb] in [num] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us .
2 ‘ I 've played in pictures like The Gauntlet where the woman is the smarter of the two people , it just depends on the project , ’ he says in his sole reference to 43-year-old Sondra , who co-starred in six films with him .
3 The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught .
4 Our house in Dublin would fit in one corner of it . ’
5 Watching the Turks spray it around the park against our implacable foes , the English recently , the mystery deepened as to how we managed to knock in five goals against them at Lansdowne Road .
6 United , inspired by fit-again Eric Cantona are now unbeaten in 15 matches , and Southampton never looked like preventing them chalking up their eighth win in nine attempts against them .
7 They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them .
8 Indeed , according to Lawrence Williams , who appeared in five films with him , Reagan in those days was a surprisingly intense , well-informed and thoughtful man to be avoided in the studio canteen by colleagues likely to be somewhat less interested in the world about them .
9 Six of my men were killed in one spot near me .
10 It was in a concealed metal box underneath the dashboard , that he 'd had one of the fitters weld in one evening for him , thirty quid and not a word to anyone , least of all Tom Holdfast .
11 What looked like flour-sacks were piled in one section of it , and the floor was dusted with yellowish powder .
12 I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it .
13 Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and
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