Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | Although many areas still recommend that 65 is the upper age limit for basic training for advice work , and 70 is the recommended retirement age , new NACAB membership requirements now allow bureaux the freedom to take a more personal approach to advice workers nearing retirement , allowing them to continue beyond 70 if the management committee and bureau manager agree . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 4 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman 's remarks about consultants getting everyone to attend between 9 o'clock and 10 o'clock , for example , and then keeping them waiting . |
| 5 | Hughes removed Desmond Haynes , Phil Simmons and Richie Richardson in the last session , leaving them struggling at 62-3 . |
| 6 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 7 | Stress tends to move , or strain , the fibres , crystals , granules or molecules and cause them to slide over one another into a deformation of the material . |
| 8 | Oh dear , do n't tell me to go to one of those dreary little do-gooding tea groups . |
| 9 | He left me struggling with 4,000 owing on loans — and two children to bring up . |
| 10 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 11 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 12 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |
| 13 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 14 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 15 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 16 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 17 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 18 | It is n't usual for them to work after six . |
| 19 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 20 | Both of them smashed in one jump |
| 21 | They held them cradled across one arm and even with the bullet belts and all , they looked kind of funny . |
| 22 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 23 | If , however , any individual member wishes to remain on the distribution list please let me know within two weeks by telephoning Wendy Sinnet on extension 3046 . |
| 24 | I would be grateful if you could let me know within six weeks whether your councillors wish to attend such an evening and if so how many representatives you will wish to send . |
| 25 | Erm , try it , and let me know in six months . |
| 26 | Between December and March , according to the Bank of Mexico , foreign ownership of them rose by 12.9 billion pesos ( $1.4 billion ) , compared with 27.6 billion in all of 1992 . |
| 27 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 28 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 29 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 30 | I asked about 20 people emerging from the polling station . |