Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 2 | It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues . |
| 3 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 4 | It 's not very interesting for me to waffle for two hours . |
| 5 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 6 | Most of them stick to one corner . |
| 7 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 8 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |
| 9 | Indeed , an international survey of old people in Britain , Denmark , and the United States in the 1960s found over 40 per cent of them living within ten minutes ' journey of their children in all three countries . |
| 10 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 11 | Both of them smashed in one jump |
| 12 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 13 | So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour . |
| 14 | And how many lived in all of you lived in one house ? |
| 15 | Okay I 'm going to ask each of you to speak for three minutes so you might like to jot that down . |
| 16 | A description of him written in 1806 states : |
| 17 | The order , won by DEC and its prime contractor Computer Sciences Corporation , calls for $4.2m worth of DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP machines immediately with the possibility of it going to 2,500 boxes , a value of $30m , over the next four years . |
| 18 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 19 | By 1985 the Really Useful Company was showing a £2.7 million profit incredibly , almost all of it coming from one source , Cats , Lloyd Webber 's biggest money-spinner yet . |
| 20 | The next morning we left for Lhasa where 12 of us demonstrated for one hour . |
| 21 | The fact that many of us start with one playback system housed in a special " video room " encourages the analogy with the language laboratory — and we do n't usually think of installing a second language laboratory unless it 's a very big institute . |
| 22 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 23 | The extent and variety of these activities are astonishing , but while almost everyone is aware of them , and although the majority of us fiddle in one way or another , fiddling is generally considered a trivial activity without serious implications . |
| 24 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 25 | Six , seventy , thank you , standing , seventy five eighty eighty five ninety standing at ninety pounds , against you seated at ninety pounds , are you all done ? |
| 26 | She went with me to stay for two days with Mina Diamandopoulos and her son Alexis at their house on Poros . |
| 27 | Relationships were difficult things , to be worked at , and how could any survive when the love in it came from one side only ? |
| 28 | His stature increased and with such international renown it was natural for him to serve for two years , 1970–2 , as the President of the International Society of Electrochemistry . |
| 29 | Elizabeth was preserving her reputation , and the possibility of one day ruling her country , in the face of irresponsible sexual scandal about her created by one step-uncle , Thomas Seymour , her supposed lover , and of implacable hostility from the other , Edward duke of Somerset and protector of England . |
| 30 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |