Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America they seem to hit them twenty five times |
| 2 | I agree with Kev — I reckon 3–1 is a good bet for tomorrow.But one word of warning … years of painful experience has taught me one golden rule in football betting — NEVER back your own team — there 's nothing more guaranteed to jinx them . |
| 3 | My experience with the pensions inquiry had already taught me one invaluable lesson . |
| 4 | he did n't lend me three thousand quid , he cut it off the will |
| 5 | I said , I 'll tell you what , I said er cos my mum lent me seven hundred |
| 6 | The workmen even made me two little chairs and a table , and a lock for the door , so that no rats could get in . |
| 7 | It 's given me five clear working days to set up my appointments for next week . |
| 8 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 9 | Some of you may not know that you have recently given me two lovely present , the first , for my birthday , being a beautiful flower arrangement which gave me great pleasure , particularly as I live in the centre of London and my nearest ‘ garden ’ is Regent 's Park ! |
| 10 | I keep on asking but she 's given me three different answers up to now ; that Deborah felt a bit depressed , that they 'd been out very late to the last show at the cinema in Via Romana which is very near to Piazza Pitti . ’ |
| 11 | Coral are unable to split the pair in ante-post betting for the title and make them 5–1 joint favourites . |
| 12 | We 've given them five hundred pounds . |
| 13 | I thought that see as we 've given them five hundred before , perhaps you 'd consider giving them , perhaps two hundred and fifty this time . |
| 14 | Well I have in the past given them fifty each for Christmas but this year they 're going to have to make do with twenty . |
| 15 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 16 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 17 | I 'm not going to lose my two best friends . |
| 18 | Could I possibly make my one one minute comment on criteria eleven ? |
| 19 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 20 | I , I mean my five hundred pound limit on Marks was what I asked for . |
| 21 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 22 | Yeah , she only charged me two fifty today . |
| 23 | they charged me thirty six quid for a plus V A T , plus a fiver till I bring back the other one . |
| 24 | I got on bus here and he charged me thirty five P ! |
| 25 | There 's only that bus stop and then it turns down you yet they charged me thirty five pence and that were n't even half past three . |
| 26 | Cos they charged me twenty five on Little Nipper and it 's cheaper on Little Nipper than bus . |
| 27 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
| 28 | I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house . |
| 29 | I mean , they got a damn good job cos that , cos what we charged them , we charged them sixteen thousand each . |
| 30 | she charged them two hundred pound yeah . |