Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 2 | It came to something like 60 hours and I decided that I could share it between two people . |
| 3 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 4 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 5 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 6 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 7 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 8 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 9 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 10 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 11 | The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 . |
| 12 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 13 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 14 | His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him . |
| 15 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 16 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 17 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 18 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 19 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 20 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 21 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 22 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 23 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 24 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 25 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 26 | During the winter when the stock were indoors their involvement amounted to one to four hours per day . |
| 27 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 28 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 29 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 30 | It hardened to a mask , and she lay under it for three days , wandering inside her body . |