Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen this in shops when somebody has to add a twenty p to seventy-three p and out comes the calculator |
| 2 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 3 | The company is pleased to give them its full support , which includes supplying a 38 ton lorry . |
| 4 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 5 | For an investor who has selected a 1995 maturity date , BFS says the net asset value would have to fall by 5 per cent over the six years for the investment trust to be unable to pay up . |
| 6 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 7 | Cos she 's got a hundred pound |
| 8 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
| 9 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 10 | She 's got an eighty meg hard drive . |
| 11 | Jean would appreciate a note from you about what royalties she might expect in the near future , remembering she 's had a 500 advance . |
| 12 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 13 | It is available if anybody wants to give a five pound donation to the Fox appeal . |
| 14 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 15 | He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano . |
| 16 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 17 | It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth |
| 18 | It has reported a 77 p.c. increase in complaints and cited pension transfer advice as one of the biggest problem areas . |
| 19 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 20 | They may know nothing about media selection , or how to produce a TV commercial , or what it costs to buy a 20 cm × 5 cols space in the Finchley Advertiser . |
| 21 | And people are making much of the fact the Apple 's John Sculley said he expects to sell a million PowerPC Macs next year . |
| 22 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 23 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 24 | say , and there 's a one way road coming along , it 's got a two way traffic on the top , but it crosses it |
| 25 | Souness believes the sell-out Anfield crowd could make Spartak Moscow crumble as he bids to recover a 4–2 Cup Winners ' Cup deficit . |
| 26 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 27 | But he he 's got a two lines on one phone |
| 28 | He 's got a two inch gap out of his arm , he 's got tooth and claw marks to his arms and a long gash half an inch deep to his knee . |
| 29 | Pound can talk all he likes about the cultural lag in America … but he 's got a 200 year political lag in himself . |
| 30 | Well he 's got a three D station . |