Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires . |
| 2 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ There are hundreds of them hooting all night , ’ protested Betty . |
| 5 | Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary . |
| 6 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 7 | Three of them use online services to a reasonable extent , while the other two make limited use of them . |
| 8 | I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye . |
| 9 | From breakfast until the three of us cracked late-night beers , the place grooved to Aretha and the other mamas . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | And we , we normally have members go , we 've had as many as five one year , or was it six , erm , not always that many I think , was it three of you went last year , I think it was three was n't it ? |
| 12 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 13 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 16 | Er no , but one of them collected these ones . |
| 17 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 18 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 19 | One of them told New Scientist |
| 20 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
| 21 | The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis . |
| 22 | Several new chain cutter and hollow mortising and boring machines were installed , one of them having automatic action . |
| 23 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 24 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 25 | … missions : Two more relief convoys leave Cleveland for Romania this weekend one of them carrying 4,000 pairs of shoes ! |
| 26 | You know , I ought to be able to order one of you to do this shadow nonsense . ’ |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | One of you travelling intelletual supporters fancy some idle banter with David Mellor on the effectiveness of supporting LUFC via INET ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm sure that neither one of us has any thoughts along those lines at all . |