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

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1 says erm he wants seven to the minus nought point six , well you just put you know , when you 're doing X to the Y you put in seven and you put minus nought point six and you get some answer out .
2 He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well .
3 He was born in Belgrade in 1922 and he knows that war is not sweet because he fought with the partisans during World War II .
4 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
5 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 .
6 You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely .
7 If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ?
8 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 .
9 She finished at the college at one but she had some shopping to do . ’
10 However , some keys , and for example , have a particular significance to the CLI and they cause subsequent key presses to be interpreted as CLI commands and actioned accordingly .
11 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 .
12 because of the state of the country , or the state of the employment , but we 've been out , actually out with those two and they put this country down
13 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 .
14 The College proposes that this should apply to a small group of patients who are repeatedly admitted to hospital under sections 3 or 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and who require long-term support and supervision in the community , but are known to have a history of failing to co-operate with treatment ’
15 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 .
16 As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year .
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