Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 2 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 3 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 4 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 5 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 6 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 7 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 8 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 10 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 11 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 12 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 13 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 14 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 15 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 16 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 17 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 18 | Everyone , everyone has two parent and erm so a relationship exists , a mapping exists . |
| 19 | Say erm everyone has two parents . |
| 20 | With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest . |
| 21 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 22 | I ca n't see them keeping two stores on . |
| 23 | I mean we 've got to pay for good , the way , the way that the business is at the moment , because everyone 's going next day now , no-one wants three day , |
| 24 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 25 | Simply handling them causes 1 dose to be absorbed through the skin , counting them ( or similarly continuously handling them ) causes 1 dose per Turn to be absorbed . |
| 26 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 27 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
| 28 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 29 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 30 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |