Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 2 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 3 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 4 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 5 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 6 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 7 | Trade incentives , one case free for every ten purchased in the in introductory period which we 've foreseen as four weeks . |
| 8 | → Well , when I replied to the very first letter criticising Eric 's apparent tonal excesses , I mentioned the differences that we 've all heard between one Marshall , or Boogie , or Strat , or Les Paul from the next . |
| 9 | Births registered during one month in each area were randomly sampled . |
| 10 | Mix to a smooth dough , knead for 10 minutes , the cover with a damp cloth and leave for 1 hour . |
| 11 | Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth . |
| 12 | A nearby stream was polluted for 1,000 metres and 20 fish died . |
| 13 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 14 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 15 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 16 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 17 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 18 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 20 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 21 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 22 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you really think , ’ Alexandra had said earnestly , a pile of linen sheets in her arms , ‘ do you truthfully think for one moment that Aunt Emily would wish this room to be kept like — like a museum ? |
| 24 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 25 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 26 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 27 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 28 | It is not uncommon to wait for 5 hours for the result to be obtained . |
| 29 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 30 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |