Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , assuming all goes well in this weekend 's national league games , Scotland will have used a mere 16 players during the course of the campaign , Peter Wright 's introduction for the injured Alan Watt proving the only alteration over the four games . |
| 2 | They must have gone a good two miles before they met another car . |
| 3 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 4 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 5 | The register , which had been provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act and featured in the Prime Minister 's " Citizen Charter " , would have covered an estimated 100,000 sites . |
| 6 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 7 | And I could n't have chosen a better three weeks to absent myself . |