Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started with the grandwean , you know , when she 's and I 'm taking a bit , and then I seem to get addicted to it , and I 'm buying seven boxes . |
| 2 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 3 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 4 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 5 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 6 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 7 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 8 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 9 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 10 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 11 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 12 | One , the one section , one section of it , it 's all women clothes and lace ware and beautiful clothes and so on , you know it 's a market but you know and little places of pottery and so on and then the next section you go down this old market , there 's a old big square and you walk on there and you 're talking about , you go to buy avocados over here , you 're buying sixty and seventy pence for one , and you 're paying sixty pence for about bloody six over there |
| 13 | Well at that particular time on the bureau , the means test was prevalent then and you were getting twelve shillings a week . |
| 14 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 15 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 16 | I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket . |
| 17 | And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares |
| 18 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 19 | I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week . |
| 20 | So they 're taki it 's I think it 's daft because they 're introducing it in nineteen ninety three and they 're taking two age groups instead of taking one . |
| 21 | We have the stories first usually before you and they 're allowed two stories each and if they have any more then it 's up to you . |
| 22 | And they 're going hundred mile an hour ! |
| 23 | And they 're fielding 12 candidates across our region who are carrying that message to the voters . |
| 24 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 25 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 26 | And they were attacking one man , while a woman , presumably his wife or daughter , was crying by the side of the street . |
| 27 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 28 | But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he 's served two jail sentences . |
| 29 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
| 30 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |