Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 2 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 3 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 4 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 5 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 6 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 7 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 8 | Yeah , I think we should say that , well really , unless we 've got anything scheduled in the next week or two , let's get them out the way |
| 9 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 10 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 11 | Considerable care was taken in constructing them , in hardwoods , and there is a conformity in the examples known which date from the fifth to eighth centuries . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've asked you to cover for the last half-hour — that was selfish of me . ’ |
| 13 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | The overiding feeling among local people is one of relief that the party is over — what many are asking though , is why it was allowed it to start in the first place . |
| 15 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |