Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 2 | She said , " There are ten of us in the house now . |
| 3 | However , as there will be two of you in the room , we will charge twenty-five shillings . ’ |
| 4 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 5 | There were 12 of us on the boat and three full time crew . |
| 6 | There were forty-eight of us in the Section . |
| 7 | There were six of us on the course , all aiming to get the RYA ( Royal Yachting Association ) Level 1 Certificate . |
| 8 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 9 | It was Christmas Eve , and there were fourteen of us in the house . |
| 10 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 11 | There were fifteen of them in the compartment , crammed and squashed for three hours since their loading from the Transit gaol . |
| 12 | As usual , there were five of them on the village green , waiting for the school bus . |
| 13 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 14 | There were nine of them in the Forest of Dean , five in the New Forest , and five in Savernake . |
| 15 | There were nine of them in the whaler — Talbot , Van Gelder , the two divers , McKenzie and the four seamen who had rowed them so far . |
| 16 | There were eighteen of them on the boat with me . |
| 17 | It was the kind of rabbit warren in which you could not swing a cat and there were thousands of them in the city . |
| 18 | By the close of a wearying second day , England were 19 for nought at the start of their quest for a draw . |
| 19 | There were seven of us on the basic course , but Duncan and Lachlan , a divemaster , took us out in two groups . |
| 20 | There were seven of us round the radio , English , Hindu and Sikh . |
| 21 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 22 | There are four of us on the full-time staff and four trainees . |
| 23 | Well we do , there 's five of us in the family see |
| 24 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 25 | Right , that 's one of mine on the way ! |
| 26 | There 's four of us in the family — my brother Gary , my older sister Majella , myself and my younger sister Mary . |
| 27 | By day you can enjoy the reconstructed 15th century half-timbered houses in Römerberg along with museums — there 's seven of them along the Schaumainkai — and galleries aplenty . |
| 28 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 29 | 0–0 at half time ( Poland had a couple of chances ) was 3–0 to us at the end — and could easily have been 5 or 6 . |
| 30 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |