Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 2 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 3 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 4 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 5 | Teaching her all the domestic arts , Melissa reflected , in the hope that she 'd one day end up a housewife and mother in the true Italian tradition . |
| 6 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 7 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 8 | The bad news is that you have six months to live . ’ |
| 9 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 10 | Attacks on Eugénie reached such a pitch that they provoked one lady to remark : ‘ This unfortunate Empress has been so dragged through the mud that one feels almost compelled to defend her — on grounds of Christian charity alone . ’ |
| 11 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 12 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 13 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 14 | Each of the 12 speakers who accepted our invitation to be here has been told that they have seven minutes to address the conference . |
| 15 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 16 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 17 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 18 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 19 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 20 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 21 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 22 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 23 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 24 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 25 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 26 | Dan 's notes record that he saw eleven B–17s go down . |
| 27 | It was here that he spotted two men stealing a truck loaded with aluminium scrap . |
| 28 | Charges against the Marquis of Blandford alleging that he assaulted two policemen have been dropped . |
| 29 | By mid-September there were some 150,000 US military and support personnel in the region , but on Sept. 13 the senior US commander in the Gulf , Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf , dampened the growing speculation about a possible move on to the offensive in mid-October , expressing the opinion that he needed two months to bring the forces up to strength . |