Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home .
2 Thus you can describe it by the three numbers ( x1 , x2 , x3 )
3 ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’
4 Coleridge , his thoughts still at Racedown , immediately saw the opportunity for bringing all his friends together at Stowey , and on 29 June wrote to Joseph Cottle to suggest — unsuccessfully — that he should take the next coach to Bridgwater : ‘ T. Poole would fetch you in a one horse Chair . ’
5 I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds .
6 My head says Leeds will do it inside the 90 minutes .
7 Will you remember me in a million years ?
8 I did see him as a six year old child .
9 Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election .
10 Before we begin , we need to take on board the mystery , a word which will follow us through the five sessions .
11 For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific .
12 You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out on the street .
13 • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL
14 is er , Robert you can come up and take us through the four steps of selling .
15 So — shall we split them into the two groups straight away , Liz ?
16 Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated .
17 But he does not tell us of the forty-four accusations which were brought against Cato at various times ( Plin .
18 Now I want at least , to intro introduce the possibility in the series of diagrams I 'm going to show you in this lecture that we can relate it to the four stages of pathogenesis that we , we outline briefly er , in the last lecture .
19 I 'll never make it through the three weeks in one piece ! ’
20 The Apache is better than most in this respect but I would nevertheless regard it as an excellent-four seater with the fifth seat reserved for occasions when no baggage is being carried .
21 If you book ‘ willing to share ’ we 'll put you in a two bedroom apartment occupied by four .
22 By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code .
23 He was rather cool with her , since drinking was n't much fun if he could n't stir it between the two women .
24 She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed .
25 Eventually the tears dried up , but still she did n't move , lying there listlessly , feeling so brittle that it seemed the smallest of movements would scatter her into a thousand pieces .
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