Example sentences of "[prep] five [noun pl] [pers pn] " 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 they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 5 | After five minutes she had no doubts — that was the man all right . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After five days we removed the packing around the splint . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 15 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 16 | Thus if I raise a two-pound weight through a height of five feet I have increased its potential energy by ten foot pounds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At the end of five sentences you look at the list . |
| 19 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 20 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 21 | Page 19 WH Smith drops claim : WH Smith has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain . |
| 22 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 23 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 24 | So if you wan na split that up into five segments you divide three hundred and sixty by five which gives you ? |
| 25 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 26 | In five hours she 'd be marking Miguel O'Brien — a gnat trying to curb an elephant . |
| 27 | Here in five minutes we have combined an art and nature study experience . |
| 28 | In five minutes we 'll come back and take you to the medical centre for more tests . ’ |
| 29 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 30 | In five minutes it 'll be the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |