Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 2 | Once every 100 years they resume their human shapes and renew their embraces ; anyone who sees them then is turned to stone . |
| 3 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 4 | Over five thousand pound we pay you another fifteen percent . |
| 5 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 6 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 7 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 8 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 9 | 8 Draw your own graph , using the scale shown , for Mrs Simmon 's journey to the market and back , when one Saturday she changes her usual times and speeds . |
| 10 | For five days you kept her ten miles away from me . |
| 11 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |
| 12 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 13 | On one occasion he sent his faithful valet , La Tour , to procure four waterfront prostitutes . |
| 14 | He seemed to be doing fine and then one night I found him cold and dying . |
| 15 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 16 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 17 | One day he missed his charming bride ; |
| 18 | She , one day she tell me dat she saw a ghost — or somefing like a ghost , a person who come in the house — she tell me she pick up a brick and break i bones — de ting run like she no know what . |
| 19 | Enya , who is at No. 11 with the haunting Book Of Days , reveals : ‘ I had hair down to my waist until I was 18 , then one day I cut it all off . |
| 20 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 21 | One day I saw my own face in the water of the river . |
| 22 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |
| 23 | Early one morning they tied their stripy woven bags of Tibetan salt on to the yaks and left for the south . |
| 24 | First , my pet rabbit died ; one morning I found it stiff and cold in its hutch , for no apparent reason , and I was told that it was dead . |
| 25 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |
| 26 | On the one hand he saw his own suspicions mirrored in the Bishop 's eyes , on the other Wishart realised that such an interview might alienate the French and cause more trouble than it was worth . |
| 27 | On one hand he disliked its American disdain for Marxism , on the other what he identified as an English druggy self-indulgence . |
| 28 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 29 | In one way I loved them all . |
| 30 | As a small company of 15 boys we find it hard to make ends meet . |