Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous . |
| 2 | Well six of them eat three hundred right . |
| 3 | He flew into Morag 's arms and the pair of them hugged one another . |
| 4 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 5 | These can be displayed , cleared or have the four basic operations performed on them allowing eleven different sums to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 6 | And er of course , when I er I became twenty one , the National Health Insurance was er now went up to one and tenpence . |
| 7 | dir : Could I make one last suggestion ? |
| 8 | Can I make one more suggestion one , to combine two of these to call it Southwell Centenary Park , would that make it any better ? |
| 9 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you like to pick your own nose , Sir , ’ I asked one serious looking shopper . |
| 11 | What was the latest style to arrive in London , I asked three young Muslim women from Mirpur who live in a North London suburb . |
| 12 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 13 | I read five walking/climbing magazines each month , but Outdoor Action was the only one to give details . |
| 14 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 15 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 16 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 17 | In the course of researching extra material for Pursuit in the Public Records Office I made one lucky and quite unexpected find . |
| 18 | I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert . |
| 19 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 20 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 21 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 22 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 23 | Oh I like the big lattice ones , I , I , I made fourteen dozen small for the neighbours . |
| 24 | But I mean I was thinking like as well cos like we did taxes like a few weeks ago did n't we , and the tax that the government get off that race , I mean seventy five million on the whole race , |
| 25 | I mean one hundred and fifty . |
| 26 | I mean one one one one one another one . |
| 27 | Erm I mean one one fact that emerged after the the riots , when the actual arrest figures were were analyzed , was that the vast majority of people who were arrested at any rate , did n't come from the area . |
| 28 | I mean one one day we |
| 29 | I mean one little boy came in , and he said , What 's that sword doing on the table ? |
| 30 | Surely its relative , I mean two thousand pounds to you might be quite a lot of money , but to someone else , its , its not a big deal . |