Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons .
2 I had six I had five advertisers go in .
3 At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon .
4 Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army .
5 In 1317 he sent two cardinals to mediate between Edward and Bruce , who was regarded by John XXII as a pretender .
6 In October and December 1930 he held two dinners to promote the idea , the guests including Ramsay MacDonald , Lloyd George , Lord Reading , Winston Churchill , and Sir Robert Horne .
7 He became the instrument of the resentment of the shocked conservatism of the Audiencia and chapter of Oviedo ; in May 1809 he sent fifty grenadiers to dissolve the Junta .
8 In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida .
9 In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions .
10 will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility
11 One simply has to refer to the ILEA 's language census of 1987 which traced 172 languages spoken by children at home .
12 Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more .
13 But what is already here is VPL 's Reality Built For Two which lets two people meet in virtual space .
14 During the initial month 's activity in August 1990 which saw 10 resolutions adopted , only 4 were voted unanimously .
15 Of seventy-four listed ports in 1772 , 59 had less than 500 registered tons active in foreign trade , while the seven who exceeded 10,000 tons accounted for 81.7 per cent of the total .
  Next page