Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Lot a hundred and twenty one fine musical necessaire now showing , thank you , Lot one two one for which I have eight hundred pounds offered , fifty , nine hundred and fifty , one thousand , one hundred one thousand one hundred pounds two hundred three hundred one thousand three hundred and fifty , any more ? |
2 | Lot fifty nine gramophone spare parts this one , Lot fifty nine for which I have two hundred pounds offered and twenty , two fifty , two eighty , three hundred and twenty , any more at three twenty ? |
3 | Lot a hundred and twenty two overture snuff box Der Freischutz this one , Lot one two two for which I have one thousand pounds offered , one hundred , two hundred three hundred four hundred one thousand five hundred one thousand six hundred , any more at one thousand six hundred pounds ? |
4 | Lot one hundred and eighteen singing bird box now showing , Lot one hundred and eighteen for which I have five hundred pounds offered and fifty , six hundred and fifty , seven hundred and fifty , eight hundred and fifty , nine hundred at nine hundred on the right there , any more ? |
5 | Lot sixty five is an album of postcards , Lot sixty five for which I have four hundred pounds offered and twenty , four fifty , four eighty four hundred and eighty pounds , five hundred five hundred now and fifty , six hundred and fifty , six fifty , any more ? |
6 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
7 | The Public Sector Borrowing Requirement , to eliminate which we put two million people out of work , drained our resources at a rate of P£300 a year : the equivalent of an electricity bill . |
8 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
9 | But they failed to do so , and when Henry returned to France he was able to clear the enemy from strongholds which they still held near Paris , including the formidable town and fortress of Meaux , before which he spent some seven months in 1421–2 . |
10 | Why did you you do twenty one minus thirteen for a start ? |
11 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |
12 | we we saved two hundred pound and and had a week away |
13 | Between them they taught 4.6 million children and employed 206,000 teachers ( 81% female ) . |
14 | Between them they invited twenty seven guests . |
15 | now what 's it you know five hundred percent |
16 | Well we went over two or three weeks later and happened to mention it he wanted two hundred pound for it ! |
17 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
18 | the previous one cost us I think two hundred pounds . |