Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches .
2 Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality .
3 In most cases I instance one or two well designed syllabuses which exemplify these .
4 ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’
5 ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time .
6 Mum I finded two that 's not together
7 MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 .
8 Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld .
9 In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then .
10 After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay .
11 As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford .
12 On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door .
13 A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times .
14 I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six
15 yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ?
16 During week-ends I have two part-time helpers and I also have a couple of part-time helpers from time to time .
17 From these authorities I collect two things .
18 Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week .
19 Right , at present I have fifteen speakers , plus the two seconders who have reserved the , their right .
20 Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup .
21 At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life .
22 At the beginning of the chapter I list four commonly cited functions ; it is possible to construct a longer list : Lee ( 1958 ) , for example , proposes ten .
23 In this chapter I discuss two possible approaches to reducing the size of the word graph :
24 Finding little help on these points from the people in the industry I purchased one of the machine myself .
25 During the pilot study I saw 160 patients ; only four chose to see a doctor in preference to the ENP .
26 Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools .
27 ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added .
28 It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only !
29 In some of these shops I observed one or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with the latter , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … struck with this novelty , I enquired , " whether the ladies of this locality shod horses ? " but was answered , with a smile , " they are nailers " .
30 I said , when I earned a pound I spent nineteen and sixpence , not a guinea like some of you !
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