Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 2 | you know er what in the bible says and er to get together for God put a woman and a man together and they become one flesh you read it , you think you understand what it is , but you do n't really understand until you lose your partner |
| 3 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 4 | Needs vary locally and what suits one area might not be right for another . |
| 5 | You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different . |
| 6 | I do not count calories any more and I eat three meals a day . |
| 7 | The flesh under her chin sagged as the fat disappeared but after just 5 months of stretching her lower jaw over her front teeth 5 times a day , her neck toned up magnificently and she looked 10 years younger ! |
| 8 | The tape is out now and we have five copies of it to give away . |
| 9 | we were lucky to get this because chap er wanted to get out into a house really and he had one offer er from down south and they 'd put in and looked and they er and they sort of bo had n't followed it up , so |
| 10 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 11 | I got one pound twenty but er , in change but she said , like how much is a bet here and she said one pound thirty . |
| 12 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 13 | We had er they were sleeping all over everywhere at Christmas time , on the floor , seem to remember dozens of people then and we kept two maids then and a gardener . |
| 14 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 15 | And he stood there and he got three quarts o' beer into him . |
| 16 | Okay and you made six sets of |
| 17 | Broadly , if he gives the property away to his son or a share in his agricultural partnership to his son absolutely and he survives seven years no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 18 | It was never even mentioned afterwards and I reckon 99 percent of players at that time would have sacked me . |