Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just whether it 's worth having the hire for that one doing forty foot . |
| 2 | For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church . |
| 3 | For this you need one recorder , the " master machine " you copy onto , and one other " slave " machine to copy from . |
| 4 | The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 6 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , allegedly brought the Brussels computer system to a halt after commanding it to make 50,000 phone calls . |
| 7 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 8 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 9 | Erm look I 'll put June on from Mansfield first of all I wanted thirty seconds worth of famous dogs cos we had er why Nottinghamshire 's dogs are too dumpy earlier on did n't we ? . |
| 10 | First of all you want three things . |
| 11 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 12 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 13 | Although there was as yet no sign that the IRA was capable of mounting the sort of offensive which followed four years later , Paisley had no doubt where O'Neill 's reforming policy would lead : |
| 14 | One simply has to refer to the ILEA 's language census of 1987 which traced 172 languages spoken by children at home . |
| 15 | His weight increased rapidly from an early age — the result of a natural physical disorder , not over-indulgence — and at the age of 23 he weighed 32 stone . |
| 16 | I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line : before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten . |
| 17 | Stockton North MP Frank Cook said : ‘ You can picture the scene : a consultant walks into a care unit with five or six patients struggling , fighting for their lives and says : ‘ Hands up those who have 15 breaths left in them to make it round the corner . ’ |
| 18 | The CHES report confirmed that at age five there were differences in behaviour , in cognitive abilities and vocabulary between children of lone parents compared with those who had two parents . |
| 19 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 20 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 21 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 22 | Right again that 's slightly complicated in that we have two roads coming from the Leeds direction and the |
| 23 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 24 | When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton ! |
| 25 | In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ . |
| 26 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 27 | Walker 's study of students at the University of Warwick is concerned with all mature students , however within this he distinguishes two groups , one in which the students did meet the university 's General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) and the second in which they did not ( Walker 1975 ) . |
| 28 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 29 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 30 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |