Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
| 2 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 3 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd had six months of worrying whether everything was going to be all right — what Joseph would look like , or whether he would be all there , ’ says Leslie , her relief still evident . |
| 5 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 6 | Surprisingly it was given an overhaul and returned to service six months later . |
| 7 | Unfortunately all our well laid plans went out of the window on March 19th when our second child decided to arrive six weeks early . |
| 8 | Even if he did count six kegs , who 's to say there were n't more stacked away in another part of the freight car ? ’ |
| 9 | Sharman returned to earth on May 26 with the Soviet cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanásiev , who had completed six months aboard the Mir space station . |
| 10 | Private Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months and had completed six months of his tour of duty at the time of his death . |
| 11 | A French headmaster , Mr Ernest Chenieres , who sparked a controversy by banning Islamic headscarves in the classroom , said yesterday he had received six death threats from Islamic extremists . |
| 12 | Arkle had won six races ( including the Irish Grand National , the Hennessy Gold Cup , a second Cheltenham Gold and the Whitbread Gold Cup ) and been narrowly beaten once , when conceding large amounts of weight to top-class horses Flying Wild and Buona Notte in the Massey-Ferguson Handicap Chase at Cheltenham . |
| 13 | Gelding or not , John Henry was quite a horse , and by the end of his first season with Rubin he had won six races , including five on grass ( of which two were Stakes races ) . |
| 14 | In legislative elections in March 1987 the RPR won seven seats and formed a government in coalition with the UPL which had won six seats . |
| 15 | Dakole Daissala , the new Minister of Posts and Telecommunications , was the leader of the Movement for the Defence of Democracy ( MDR ) , which had won six seats in the March parliamentary elections [ see p. 38802 ] . |
| 16 | The sprint roll of honour contained many famous names — Valeriy Borzov had won four individual titles and the Italian Pietro Mennea had won six medals in all . |
| 17 | The AFPFL did not get things all their way : they had to accept six seats on the new Council ( no better than Dorman-Smith had offered the previous year ) . |
| 18 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 19 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 20 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 21 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 22 | Luckily , Andy cottoned on to what I was trying to say and took the cradle to the top of the building , where we had to jump six feet on to the roof . |
| 23 | One of the most prestigious units , No. 32 , on the Priestgate bridge , had attracted six applications despite carrying one of the highest rents £30,000 . |
| 24 | ‘ We had to find six words out of a newspaper . |
| 25 | He said the United Arab Emirates had revealed six members of the Memon family took a direct Pakistan International Airlines flight from Dubai to Karachi on 17 March , five days after the bombings . |
| 26 | Betsy King cut her finger as she attempted to cut a bagel and had to receive six stitches . |
| 27 | For instance , if I had written six songs , one on each record , that used the Not Of This Earth technique of one bass note , three chords , pitch axis , it would be quite boring at a concert when you get to the fourth one . |
| 28 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 29 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 30 | He had died six months before . |