Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles .
2 Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal .
3 The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later .
4 After two weeks we got a three page fax from Isobel Lee , Helen 's assistant .
5 In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees .
6 Alton Towers in fact was a record turnover and profit and I think it justifies our marketing of goods I mentioned the two investments on new rides earlier and that was designed to move the audience from the white socks brigade to family unions , it seems to be working very well
7 You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items
8 At the Cosford Games I won the 60 metres , my first major senior success above county level .
9 ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’
10 With his sharp claws he separated the two beings and swiftly carved nostrils , eyes , ears and genitals , thus creating the first man and woman .
11 Mr Dovaston said witnesses had told police they saw the two men shout to Magee to catch up with them .
12 decorators and they were saying that their plumbers they charge a hundred pound a day !
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