Example sentences of "[prep] five [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After five questions you are handed the list to read before they are repeated by PP , and you reply to ( but never repeat ) what has been said . |
| 2 | After five minutes nothing had happened . |
| 3 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 4 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 5 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 6 | After five minutes she had no doubts — that was the man all right . |
| 7 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 8 | So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums . |
| 9 | The two sets of carers who were not content with the institutionalisation decision were : the male friend of a single woman who said it had been a pleasure to visit her daily and help look after her ; after five months she was admitted to hospital under a guardianship order because she was felt to be at risk . |
| 10 | After five days we removed the packing around the splint . |
| 11 | After five days it came with the speed of a poltergeist hurling a vase : Robson is the long time presenter of the Metro Radio programme Night Owls , ghosts strut their stuff at night , the two make a neat marketing ploy . |
| 12 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 13 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 14 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 15 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 17 | After five years my two colleagues left , one to return to Canada and the other to become assistant priest at Rangoon cathedral , so I was left to do my best with all the subjects of the curriculum , except for occasional help from visiting clergy or teachers . |
| 18 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 19 | After five years there would be no controls at all . |
| 20 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 21 | Thus if I raise a two-pound weight through a height of five feet I have increased its potential energy by ten foot pounds . |
| 22 | For each rocket , there is a set of five questions which the teams have to answer in order to reach Mars . |
| 23 | INQUEST PLEA : Families of five party-goers who died after being trapped in fire on third floor of house without fire escape in Hove , east Sussex , asked High Court to order fresh inquest into the tragedy . |
| 24 | It was not a pleasant situation to deal with in a sea like that , but Sam issued his orders quickly and with complete confidence : the sail was lowered , a new sheet bent on , a reef taken , and the sail rehoisted , so that within the space of five minutes they were on their way again , and the Gribbin was drawing abeam . |
| 25 | At the end of five sentences you look at the list . |
| 26 | At 11.30 a.m. on 9 February 1839 , north of the Ross Sea , he sighted land in latitude 66–7° S , longitude 162–3° E. This was a group of five islands which he called the Balleny Islands . |
| 27 | Jose-Maria Olazabal , one of five players who finished equal 72nd in a field of 78 at New Orleans , has jumped into second place . |
| 28 | THE families of five partygoers who died after being trapped in a house fire yesterday asked the High Court to order a fresh inquest into the tragedy . |
| 29 | Lord Winterstoke became the first of five Pro-Chancellors who have been elected from Wills families . |
| 30 | He has a team of five executives who manage a portfolio of 200 investments between them . |