Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] a [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I lived in , , , , ten years waiting list , ten years waiting list to have the opportunity , if there is an opportunity to come , to own or get a three bedroomed house . |
| 2 | This basilica , overlooking the river Esla , is 70 feet long and has a five bay nave separated from the aisles by marble columns with mixed capitals — Roman , Visigothic and tenth century Mozarabic ( these last-named are palm leaf designs as in the Cordovan Mosque ) . |
| 3 | Leaving Rosie in charge , he went to investigate and found a three cornered argument in progress . |
| 4 | In Egypt he added DM150 million to the DM1,000 million already promised to help cover Egypt 's costs in the war , and pledged a dozen armoured gas detection vehicles from the former East German arsenal . |
| 5 | I snap , eyeing the lobsters , and observing a dozen fat oysters , discreetly arranged around them , which I had n't noticed before . |
| 6 | ANNABELLA LWIN : For allowing Malcolm McLaren to exploit her girlish sensuality and feed a thousand under-age sex fantasies . |
| 7 | Her frightened cry was smothered by yet another explosion that shook the stones next to her and sent a dozen small creatures streaming out of the dark corners and across the floor , their high-pitched squeaks audible even above the shattering reverberations assaulting her ears . |
| 8 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |