Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 3 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 4 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 5 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 6 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 7 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 8 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 9 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 10 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 11 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 12 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 13 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 14 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 15 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 16 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 17 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 18 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 19 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 20 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 21 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 22 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 23 | The rebels , whose advance had brought them within 50 miles ( 80 km ) of the capital , Addis Ababa , were undecided whether to fight on . |
| 24 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 25 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 26 | On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds . |
| 27 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 28 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 29 | She had tried them after two days . |
| 30 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |