Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found we could detect 12.5 fg M tuberculosis DNA with the IS 6110 primers , but only 36 fg with the 65 kilodalton based primers . |
| 2 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 3 | The largest area , a hall in which Tiller claimed he could train 200 pupils at any one time , was dominated by three enormous mirrors that would show the girls their mistakes . |
| 4 | What I felt was quite different from what I decided I should feel two days ago . |
| 5 | Erm , got back here about quarter past nine , which was great , cos it meant I could watch One Foot in the Grave . |
| 6 | Well I knew I would have three people in the studio with sandwich boards on . |
| 7 | I thought I could discern two elements in his ‘ game ’ — one didactic , the other aesthetic . |
| 8 | ‘ It started at sixpence , if you remember , but now things have got so out of hand I thought you ought to have five peas . ’ |
| 9 | She glanced , covertly , at her watch , and saw to her relief that the feature film had only ten minutes to run ; she thought she could last ten minutes . |
| 10 | Steve Brown 's name came up , and we thought we 'd do one track with him , but we got on great , which solved that problem . |
| 11 | TWO BUNGLING criminals thought they would keep one step ahead of police by using a high-technology scanner device to eavesdrop on them . |
| 12 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 13 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 14 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 15 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 16 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 17 | Last year in 1989 the NCT had hoped to raise £90,000 from the lottery : they hoped everyone would sell 2 books of tickets . |
| 18 | She said but she said I 'll say seven days but , she 's put the but in . |
| 19 | No , but she said you could have eight people all talking at once |
| 20 | Ivy said no we have n't , she said you will have one day . |
| 21 | So I said I said we 'll get ten pound each . |
| 22 | The sisters exchanged glances , then Miss Belle and Miss Florence nodded towards their elder sister and guide , and she , turning to Agnes said , ‘ Mrs Bretton-Fawcett said we could get five pounds of anyone 's money for it . |
| 23 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 24 | It it is No it is n't now because w Pete said they could have seven people out there so if they get seven people out there , |
| 25 | Mr Smith said they used to have two bands , the present one and the Hepworth Iron Company Band , and it was marvellous when they joined forces for the evening sing . |
| 26 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 27 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
| 28 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 29 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 30 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |