Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forest was cool where we walked a hundred feet below the canopy . |
| 2 | ‘ Not even the moments that we relive a thousand times . ’ |
| 3 | But the logic of the report was that we provide a two tier service [ new general hospital wards , old asylum services ] . |
| 4 | Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . |
| 5 | In some cases down to nil if we take a five year contract . |
| 6 | So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner . |
| 7 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 8 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 9 | ‘ They stood up pretty well considering we lost a 10-0 lead and then had to come from behind to win . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 11 | This is where the difficulty when we have A sixty north and south and A fifty nine east and west . |