Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 2 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 3 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 4 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |
| 5 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 6 | ‘ The work goes on , one week like another , and pretty incessant until Friday night , and then the break which gives one time to get one 's breath again , ’ he wrote to his mother two months after becoming Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 8 | In order to realise this new imperative we need three paradigm shifts in our thinking . |
| 9 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a contract which has 18 months to go , and as far as I 'm concerned , I 'll be seeing out those 18 months . |
| 11 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |
| 12 | financial health check I think one company calls it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
| 14 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 15 | FOUR men are due to appear in court in Mildenhall today after an incident in a Haverhill pub which left two people needing hospital treatment . |
| 16 | One large dome and two smaller ones with twisted columned drums are set over the narthex which has 12 columns to support them inside . |
| 17 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 18 | CONGRATULATIONS to electrician who completed 25 years service on . |
| 19 | The classic example of this is the girl who sets two men fighting for her . |
| 20 | Tonight we 'll devote all our time to the National as here in Central South we have eleven horses running at Aintree , in what 's regarded as one of the greatest horse races in the world . |
| 21 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 22 | AN evil gang who kidnapped two families to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 were jailed for a total of 65 years yesterday . |
| 23 | The violent eruption which killed 1,700 people has never been satisfactorily explained . |
| 24 | Plucky Vale certainly deserved a second crack at their fierce rivals after a frenetic clash which had 24,500 fans living on their nerve ends . |
| 25 | We did n't look loke a team who needed 7 goals to win , quite happy to just knock it around . |
| 26 | Edvard Radzinsky — an author who spent 25 years researching the Tsar 's life — says : ‘ There is also a huge nostalgia for the monarchy . |
| 27 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 28 | After the farm-workers had cleared a field of the crop they left one sheaf standing on it . |
| 29 | However , at the committee 's latest meeting he supported two amendments dealing with the status of church shops and newsagents . |
| 30 | And the bullets in the gun in the watch-tower above , they 're real … and the cold , and the sentence of the court which has fourteen years to run , and the worst luck that the Consul had ever heard of … they 're real . |