Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 2 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 3 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 4 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 5 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 6 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 7 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 8 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 9 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 10 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 11 | She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy , and concealed it until four days before she went into labour . |
| 12 | DALGLISH 'S Liverpool had not long recorded their biggest League win this century ( 7-1 at Derby ) and followed it with five goals against Leeds . |
| 13 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 14 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 15 | She put all the dolls in one pram and covered them with four sheets and four blankets . |
| 16 | They were about to land at Bristol when he spotted car thieves and buzzed them for 10 miles until they ditched their motor . |
| 17 | The next day took us past the quarter-way mark , and brought us within seven miles of In Salah . |
| 18 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
| 19 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 20 | Chelmsford magistrates fined him £2,600 and banned him for 18 months . |
| 21 | The result was the partnership which bought Twr-y-Felin in St David 's and ran it for 18 months until Phil moved on to pursue other interests . |
| 22 | He had a fight with a man called Connell , and demolished him in ten minutes . |
| 23 | Accordingly , he dismissed five members of his Cabinet , including his deputy , Danny Philips , and replaced them with four members of the opposition ( George Luialamo , Sam Alasia , Alfred Maetia and Sir Peter Kenilorea , a former Prime Minister ) and Job Tausinga , a PAP backbencher . |
| 24 | He dismissed five of his ministers ( including Deputy Prime Minister Danny Philip ) and replaced them with four members of the opposition and one PAP backbencher [ see p. 37862 ] . |
| 25 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 26 | A Basel court on March 17 , 1989 , found a computer specialist guilty of passing economic information to the Soviet Union and sentenced him to 45 days in prison . |
| 27 | Mr Harty said Benson had a substantial sum of money in his possession and sentenced him to six months imprisonment on each of two charges to run consecutively and consecutive to a sentence he was presently serving . |
| 28 | But they accepted he was seeking help with his drinking problem and sentenced him to 18 months probation with a 3-year driving ban . |
| 29 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
| 30 | Magistrates at Milton Keynes found Paul Stellato who 's twenty two guilty of handling stolen goods and sentenced him to three months in jail . |