Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |
| 2 | ‘ There are hundreds of them hooting all night , ’ protested Betty . |
| 3 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 4 | Oh it was a right laugh we we were all in a sleeping bag and there 's three of us lying that way then one lying here one on the sofa and one lying there it was a bit mad ! |
| 5 | The five of them eyed each other stiff-faced and stiff-necked , drank a glass of wine together with the earl to seal their new friendship , and parted in complete mutual understanding and distrust . |
| 6 | Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous . |
| 7 | Er no , but one of them collected these ones . |
| 8 | You know , I ought to be able to order one of you to do this shadow nonsense . ’ |
| 9 | You swore each and every one of you to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence … |
| 10 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 11 | I 'm sure that neither one of us has any thoughts along those lines at all . |
| 12 | I resent the inference in your questions that one of us visited that apothecary and secured the poison to carry the murder out . ’ |
| 13 | Usually the Guide 's text , containing information on nomenclature , fashion , materials , finishes , and upholstery , was altered in 1794 to take account of the altered plates , only two of which bear that date , but , curiously , comments of 1788 on a chair ‘ executed with a good effect for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ’ apply , in 1794 , to a completely different design . |
| 14 | Silence then , the two of them facing each other . |
| 15 | Ward had also risen , the two of them facing each other . |
| 16 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 17 | ‘ In other words when the two of you confront each other again you know you can beat him . |
| 18 | Four of them had another go as The Madness but it did n't work , and suddenly they were gone . |
| 19 | Four of us fished that night and four of us blanked . |