Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the nine " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Oh no I would have played the nine anyway . |
| 2 | I reckon she must be , cos I 've got the nine ! |
| 3 | I 've got the nine have I ? |
| 4 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |
| 5 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 6 | Only yesterday Nicandra had found the nine white eggs , distanced from the ordinary into magic by the wild nest her bantam had chosen to build in a broken flowerpot beneath a Ponticum rhododendron , well away from a wire compound , the night-time enclosure of the bantam flock . |
| 7 | The plan had led the nine trade union federations to call a general strike on Aug. 13-14 . |
| 8 | Yes it was , Fairbrother 's got the nine you see , look . |