Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some people got twenty six and they got yellow tickets as well . |
| 2 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
| 3 | His father was forty-nine , his mother forty-two and he weighed twelve pounds — remarkable for that time and place . |
| 4 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 5 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 6 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |
| 7 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 8 | Her husband died in 1908 and she died 26 August 1923 while on holiday in North Lancing . |
| 9 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 10 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 11 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 12 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 13 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 14 | She finished at the college at one but she had some shopping to do . ’ |
| 15 | This may well have been the case in September 1987 but I thought most reviewers were scared to dive in and uncover the record 's moments of uncoordinated parody for fear of being trampled to death by hordes of rampant Smiths devotees . |
| 16 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 17 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 18 | She quotes examples of environmental deterioration in China for example which started to be acute between AD , 1500–1750 and which induced long distance transport of night-soil , labour intensive digging of river silts , widespread terracing , and recycling of residues and wastes . |
| 19 | The time we 're looking at , so we decided traditional was from civilization to World War Two and we decided that World War Two to ninety four was modern okay . |
| 20 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 21 | Many of the greatest treasures in National Trust houses would have been sold abroad long ago if it had not been for the ‘ in lieu ’ system , which was established in 1956 and which enabled private owners to give works of art to the nation in lieu of capital taxes . |
| 22 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 23 | In Southend , for example , their vote fell quite sharply compared with 1988 and they lost six seats , although in neighbouring Rochford their share increased by 8% . |
| 24 | Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal . |