Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was safer for them to have one old woman occupying part of the place than to leave it empty and risk a group of drifters moving in . |
| 2 | Indeed , the company 's relocation package recognised the fact that the Thames acted as a barrier to relocation for the Kent-based employees and made provision for them to make four paid visits to view accommodation . |
| 3 | Three years later the tally had risen to seventeen countries , between them operating 167 nuclear reactors . |
| 4 | But was she trying to confuse the plot by saying : ‘ I know that it is impossible for me to win four Grand Slam tournaments this year . ’ |
| 5 | What is known of them suggests two strong influences : Poland 's ‘ Big Bang ’ and Mr Gorbachev 's new personal economic adviser , Mr Nikolai Petrakov . |
| 6 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 7 | There 's talk of him opening two new salons in New York and Milan . |
| 8 | Ahead of him marched twenty other pages following six saddled mules and six saddled horses , each led by four men . |
| 9 | On a trip to the Dolomites a few years ago , four of us brought three different stoves between us rashly thinking we had all angles covered . |
| 10 | All of us have one built-in hindrance : the unconscious habits of our first language which interfere with the new set of habits we are trying to develop . |
| 11 | Cult-turned-flagship Have I Got News For You garnered six million viewers this year , a BBC2 chart-topper , and , as Merton observes , ‘ You do n't hear a bad thing said about it ! ’ |
| 12 | Across that fold of land behind him come two sporty types in joggers . |
| 13 | The man was dressed in a combat jacket and jeans , and behind him stood two more men , their hair cropped short , dressed in a similar fashion but holding two flags , a Union Jack and a red flag with a cross on it . |
| 14 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 15 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 16 | With them walked four thin men in rich-coloured rags . |
| 17 | The range before them contained two separate crescendi : Great Ararat , a bulky , broad-shouldered mass like a buttressed dome , and Little Ararat , some four thousand feet lower , an elegant cone with smooth and regular sides . |
| 18 | Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back . |
| 19 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 20 | For a little while longer his health held up sufficiently for him to plunder one more shrine , at Rocamadour , and then at Martel , on 11 June , he died . |
| 21 | In the eyes of the unhappy infantry , the heavy gunners may have been a breed apart , but beyond them lay one small body of men that seemed to be not even of the same world . |
| 22 | These can be displayed , cleared or have the four basic operations performed on them allowing eleven different sums to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 23 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 24 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 25 | Around her hovered two younger sisters with a washing towel and an enamel basin . |