Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned his head and walked towards a flight of shallow steps above which jutted two triangles of red granite . |
| 2 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 3 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 4 | Her husband John is still trying to come to terms with what happened three years ago . |
| 5 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
| 7 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |