Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 2 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The middle six hours of that day we passed in waiting . |
| 4 | Six months after this promotion he again called me to his office to suggest , in his gentle diplomatic way , that while the CBC was happy with my work as Production Manager , it had been observed that I was still producing almost as many shows as before . |
| 5 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 6 | No we actually did n't work for about six years until this year we did a concert tour of Ireland just before we came over here . |
| 7 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 8 | If they are able to construct an approved programme of study over six terms from that date they are then eligible to enter Stage II in term 2 or 3 of their second year . |
| 9 | the tank this just hold compressed air and comes in sizes ranging from 7 litre to 15 litre they are made from steel or aluminium and have a valve to let the air out . |
| 10 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 11 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 12 | Eleven years down that path he now has a far greater appreciation of dogs and the people who handle them professionally . |
| 13 | I have a fitting on Sunday for the ‘ New Faces ’ final — one gown with three jackets to ring the changes over the ninety minutes of live T.V. It 's imperative that I do the show as I ca n't think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill . |
| 14 | I say he 's had half a dozen kids to each girl he 's been |
| 15 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
| 16 | To these three kinds of relational information we may add a fourth , namely the relation between speaker ( and perhaps other participants ) and setting ( or social activity ) . |
| 17 | For three rolls of old paper you get one new roll . ’ |
| 18 | It is a remarkable fact that although Edward II received almost £240,000 in taxes from his clergy , for three quarters of that amount he was indebted to the papacy ; Edward managed to get his hands on 92 per cent of the papal tenths imposed on the English clergy in his reign . |
| 19 | As it T's off the main flow , it takes only part of the flow from the pump , and using three Wurlys from one pump you lose only 30 GPH from the main flow rate . |
| 20 | In the first three sections of this chapter we considered a word-oriented , single-address computer with one accumulator . |
| 21 | In the first three sections of this chapter we will outline the legal framework and organizational context in which each set of decisions is taken , and will also say something about the decision-makers themselves . |
| 22 | Because there are three parts to this definition it is called the tripartite definition or the tripartite account ; it defines propositional knowledge , knowledge that p ; it does not define knowledge by acquaintance as in ‘ a knows James ’ nor knowledge-how , e.g. knowledge how to ride a bicycle , unless these can be shown to reduce to knowledge-that . |
| 23 | But erm anyway , the erm and some of the men , used to go The older men , used to go and er to the smithy and cos er the our the s fitting shop had a three fires at one end you see , where the am blacksmiths were . |
| 24 | I if I can ask you to home in on that five thousand pound figure , once you reach five thousand pound on any assignment you get another fifteen percent bonus . |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State make clear to the summit that after fourteen years of this government we have seen unemployment treble to three million unemployed . |
| 26 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 27 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 28 | could draw it up to a a thousand pounds on that card I mean |
| 29 | On the basis of the limited knowledge acquired from examining the 3 Institutions of higher education it would appear that there is a higher dropout in the first year of a course among non-traditional students than among the general student body . |
| 30 | If you collected as little as I gram of this toxin it would be enough to kill a hundred thousand average-sized men . |