Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made inquiries and discovered that for just 19 he could get to Ontario . |
| 2 | As they are stupid they are unreliable , and with a leadership of only 4 they will almost always fail their test . |
| 3 | In the example above , Smith would have a laterality coefficient of 0.20 while/ones would have a coefficient of only 0.14 It does not matter whether the score for the left side is larger or smaller than the score on the right since the sign of the coefficient , negative or positive , indicates the direction of any lateral advantage . |
| 4 | For a man of just thirty it was a remarkable achievement . |
| 5 | feet and inches , what do you want , oh , oh he said er , he 's a fellow , he 's a fellow of about thirty you know |
| 6 | sold it now , different people got it and they 've gone to Amer going to America yeah that was them , ever so nice girl she is and her children , two lovely girls and a boy of about sixteen I suppose , lovely girl she was , and they were frightened to go anywhere . |
| 7 | It was n't compulsory er erm up to the age of about eighteen I think , |
| 8 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 9 | With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism . |
| 10 | She 's placed another advertisement in this week 's local newspaper , under an assumed name — one of around 20 she 's thought to use . |
| 11 | I went to fetch them and returned with only three I 'd found , jungle , Safari and Ice . |
| 12 | From about 1760 he was increasingly occupied in surveying and reporting on river and canal works , including those of the rivers Lea , Chelmer , Thames , Medway , and the Stour in Kent ; the drainage of the Ancholme level and the north level of the Fens ; the Forth and Clyde canal , and the Stroudwater canal . |
| 13 | From about 1902 she and Bateson were the leading members of the team which started the modern study of plant genetics in Britain ; indeed , she has been called the ‘ mother ’ of British plant genetics . |
| 14 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 15 | From about 3.30 she plays quite happily by herself and I return to my book again ! |
| 16 | From about 1690 he also supported himself by giving courses of lectures on chemistry . |
| 17 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 18 | In A.D. 409 it was established at Ravenna and this area of the Adriatic coast from Ancona to the Istrian peninsula — designated the Ravennate — became the connecting link between Constantinople and the western half of its empire . |
| 19 | Dating from around 1903 it had clearly been well played with as it was scratched and chipped and lacked a front wheel . |
| 20 | Details are hard to elicit from the texts , since in AD 529 it was abolished by Justinian , who later brusquely referred to it as a tenebrosissimus error . |
| 21 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 22 | In AD 531 it was ruled that any words , direct or precatory , would suffice for a bequest ; that legacies should also have the nature of trusts and vice versa ; and that each disposition was also the other . |
| 23 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
| 24 | I believe it 's seven o'clock , seven till about nine I believe . |
| 25 | At only 11 he was burdened with the responsibility of helping his mother cope while trying to support his younger brother . |
| 26 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 27 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 28 | Dated at approximately 1430 it concerns a writ , ‘ Commission ad computa collectorem denorionum pro clausura villae ’ , which may be translated as a ‘ Commission for the hearing of the accounts of the collectors of money for the walling of a town ’ . |
| 29 | At just 17 she is privileged to have her own flat and sports car both courtesy of her celebrity father who also provides her with £200 per week pocket money . |
| 30 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |