Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 2 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 3 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 4 | In this paper we describe the results of restorative proctocolectomy in 18 patients over the age of 50 whom we have treated in the past six years and compare them with the results achieved in younger patients . |
| 5 | You can load up to 10 applications and hold them in suspended animation in the background while you work on another app in the foreground . |
| 6 | I cut out all the short stories from nearly 100 magazines and pasted them into a collection of scrapbooks . |
| 7 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 8 | [ Houghton ] himself would pick a dozen objects and put them in a ‘ masterpiece ’ gallery so the average Joe could taste the cream and leave ’ , yet Hoving espouses precisely such ideas throughout the book . |
| 9 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 10 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 11 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 12 | b ) Use your protractor to measure the three angles and mark them on your drawing . |
| 13 | Hard boil a dozen eggs and cut them in half lengthways . |
| 14 | It was the first of a series of compounds which are known as the ‘ tricyclic antidepressants ’ , because their chemical structure contains three rings and distinguishes them from the monoamine oxidase inhibitors . |
| 15 | She snatched up three tankards and filled them with ale , her movements swift and practised . |
| 16 | To get the best use from Lexis you need to be trained over three levels and use it on a regular basis . |
| 17 | In the case of Papua , there are several more , so we will have to bring up the next three sections and place them into stitch patterns A , B and C again and knit through these , before re-programming once again . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not too late to inform the police , ’ put in Charlotte , pausing to study the other two's reactions and finding them to be exactly what she had expected . |
| 19 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 20 | From Tarsus , Paul continues his missionary journey , which lasts some fourteen years and takes him across virtually the whole of the eastern Mediterranean world — not only throughout the Holy Land , but to Asia Minor as well , and across the sea to Greece . |
| 21 | It was a very short trip of ten minutes and took us from Wolton to Haven Street and back . |
| 22 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 23 | The best advice now available is to cut down on Omega-6 fats and balance them with Omega-3 fish oils . |
| 24 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 25 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 26 | for a period of five or ten years and lease it off them and then have to maintain it . |
| 27 | You can , if you wish , test your heartbeat by taking your pulse for ten seconds and multiplying it by six thus making a minute . |
| 28 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 29 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 30 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |