Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 2 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 3 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 4 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 5 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
| 6 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 7 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 8 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
| 9 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 10 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 11 | This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie . |
| 12 | ‘ I think I need 350,000 points to guarantee selection , and I will pass that total if I finish in the top two tomorrow , ’ said Lane . |
| 13 | I refer to the estimated twenty five percent of all water pumped that leaks away in broken mains . |
| 14 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 15 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 16 | I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then . |
| 17 | Undressed , I lay alongside the one hundred and fifty-sixth of her kind and shuddered as her fingers touched my erect penis . |
| 18 | I did so by dropping some more blobs of gold onto the edges of the canvas directly from the stem of the diffuser and , whilst these remained wet , I sprayed on the next two colours . |
| 19 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |
| 20 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 21 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 22 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 23 | The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) . |
| 24 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 25 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 26 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 27 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
| 28 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 30 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |