Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
| 2 | You 'll be able to see them two houses from a long way away . |
| 3 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 4 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 5 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 6 | Andrea was up to see me one day . |
| 7 | And the maintenance engineer at Ffestiniog , Mr , I know him very well , he came here er like you did downstairs , come to see me one evening . |
| 8 | Could you lend me two fingers ? |
| 9 | Hey Rob do you wan na lend me fifty P ? |
| 10 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 11 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 12 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 13 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 14 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 16 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 17 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 19 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 20 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 21 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 22 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 23 | She beckoned to the waiter and said without asking Wexford first , ‘ Bring me two coffees . ’ |
| 24 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll be building them one day , I tell you , ’ he said softly . |
| 26 | ‘ That made me six foot seven inches tall . ’ |
| 27 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
| 28 | You have given me thirty pence . |
| 29 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 30 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |