Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been dying to see Five Guys Named Moe — I hear it 's really brilliant — and also one called Blood Brothers . |
| 2 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 3 | The sergeant has denied assault , in a trial that 's expected to last five days . |
| 4 | Dell Computer Corp launched a colour notebook computer at $2,000 : the Dimension NL25C has a 25MHz 80386 microprocessor , 9″ screen , weighs 6.6 lbs and has a rechargeable NiCad battery that is claimed to run five hours between charges . |
| 5 | Lord Alexander says now that the Development Plans were never taken seriously , that it was then thought ‘ a nonsense ’ to try to project five years ahead . |
| 6 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
| 7 | Martin had organised to spend five days hill walking in North Wales . |
| 8 | Because if you 're told that it 's going to get a maximum of three minutes air time , and if the interviewer wants to ask five questions , you think there are five topics that you would like to get in , to make five points , then do a bit of mathematics , and work out how long you think each answer should be . |
| 9 | However , the cost of painting so many large plates proved too expensive so plans were made to issue five sections : trees and shrubs , greenhouse plants , exotics , flowers and fruits ; all with plates of the most unusual varieties . |
| 10 | The lease in our sample document can be seen to comprise five parts , as follows : |
| 11 | California is said to use five times the amount of chemicals of the UK . |
| 12 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 13 | By 1636 he was said to operate five furnaces and nine forges and slitting mills in the west midlands . |
| 14 | The research plans to produce five studies resulting in collaborative volumes as well as a larger number of shorter studies published in the form of occasional papers . |
| 15 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 16 | We 've had to cancel five classes that we set up erm in November . |
| 17 | She had cancer and it was cured and they , you know , they said , well were pretty certain that your clear but I 'm afraid you 've got to wait five years , four years and six months after they said that , it hit her again and she died . |
| 18 | It would like to fetch five times revenues — which were $160m in the fiscal year ended September 30 — but then who would n't . |
| 19 | Now she 's going to give five Ps . |
| 20 | ‘ A single ploughing may be all that is needed to negate five years of land use control , and the nitrate locked in the root system could be irretrievably lost , ’ said the Rivers Authority . |
| 21 | Miranda could tell that Madame Davenant was not angry that she had had to climb five floors to Miranda 's chambre , la quatorze , on the level just below the mansarde , where Marie-Angèle had her quarters , for the maid looked cheerful as she nodded in the direction of the salle de bains and promised , ‘ Une autre fois . ’ |
| 22 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 23 | And you 'd got to pay five shillings . |
| 24 | Well , like I say if I want to bring my family , I 've got to pay five pound which |
| 25 | For example : Mr. Butlin , the house surgeon and secretary , reported that he had received a letter from Mr. Whitworth , the Town Clerk , informing him that Bedford Corporation had agreed to subscribe five guineas per annum . |
| 26 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 27 | no , it 's only going to take five minutes to get there |
| 28 | The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred . |
| 29 | The Family Expenditure Survey , the longest running , annual , national survey , will be used to construct five year snap-shots of people who were aged 16-20 in 1961 , and 21-25 in 1966 and so on . |
| 30 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |