Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
| 2 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 3 | I realize that , you know I would say five of them five people in both departments champion of champions let's hope that it never happens again , you know , these things do happen . |
| 4 | of im of I five land . |
| 5 | It means that any office development or commercial of this kind in this I twelve policy that was to occur in Harrogate would not be counted off the sixty hectares of em erm of I five allocation , it would be in addition to it , and that may be a very important breakthrough for us . |
| 6 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 7 | And the Moors entered Castille , in great power , for there came with them five Kings , and they past above Burgos , and crost the mountains of Oca , and plundered Carrion , and Vilforado , and Saint Domingo de la Calzada , and Logroño , and Najara , and all that land ; and they carried away many captives both male and female , and brood mares , and flocks of all kinds . |
| 8 | ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’ |
| 9 | During the two-day trial the court heard how the attacker chased Mr Lay into an alley and then plunged a knife into him five times . |
| 10 | good in it five P an hour ? |
| 11 | Fitzsimmons , from the Floral Dance town of Helston in Cornwall , took it off him five years later . |
| 12 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've made love to me five times , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Even if everything does go wrong the interviewer will have forgotten the disasters which seem so catastrophic to you five minutes after you have left the room . |
| 15 | I 'm going to smoke too much , I 'm going to smoke too much , I 'm going to drink too much , I 'm not going to do enough exercise , I 'm going to put on too much weight , I 'm going to stress myself too much , and I can talk to you five days about those conditions . |
| 16 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 17 | The spectacular theft of eight sixteenth-century panel paintings , among them five Cranach portraits , from Weimar Castle on 12 October ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.4 ) is virtually solved . |
| 18 | The Australian case of McKay ( 1957 ) involved a chicken farmer who , when he found an intruder stealing chickens , shot at him five times , killing him . |
| 19 | However , this design had to be reinterpreted in the light of the CEGB 's decision to build a further power station at Hinckley Point rather than at he five sites originally named . |
| 20 | We attended between us five workshops and found all of them lacking in a clear overall framework/direction which would at least set an agenda for future constructive discussion ( let alone action ) . |