Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor . |
| 2 | THE PENCIL OF NATURE was Talbot 's attempt to acquaint the general public with the characteristics and scope of his process , which in 1841 he had decisively improved [ and called the Calotype ) . |
| 3 | The main influences seen by Vauxcelles in the work of the younger painters were those of Gauguin , Derain and Matisse , to which in 1910 he adds the influence of Picasso . |
| 4 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 5 | which at seventeen I found undetectable |
| 6 | For this purpose he built up at his own expense a large collection of apparatus , which by 1723 he valued at £400 . |
| 7 | ‘ With the number of firms working to full capacity still fewer than one in five it is difficult to be optimistic about any improvements in the short term , ’ he added . |
| 8 | They think that about one in from one in ten you get something . |
| 9 | So , from one to ten I 'll sleep . |
| 10 | Oh my god one to ten it 's got one in there already , so what have I got in there ? |
| 11 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 12 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 13 | by saying restrict them to three you get the best three they can think of |
| 14 | When she left him in 1983 he was devastated . |
| 15 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 16 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 17 | And er he 'd maybe say yes and he 'd get it for fifteen you know . |
| 18 | Originally cost twenty pounds and we could get it for ten it 's er |
| 19 | You know you can do it you can do the fractions and once you 've turned it into twelfths you can do it . |
| 20 | WHEN THE originators of the Dart Valley Light Railway plc formed it in 1965 they always intended that it should be a commercially operated line rather than a ‘ preserved ’ railway , for having looked at the then contemporary scene they felt that there were enough preservationists at work already and that their nice for survival in an essentially holiday area should be revenue-earning profitability . |
| 21 | When Josiah Wedgwood visited it in 1773 it had ‘ the appearance of a considerable Seaport town . |
| 22 | We need we need four like that four quarters that 's good and then for each one of those when we 've cut it in two it would give us two of the new pieces so every one of those four would give us two new pieces how many would we have altogether then ? |
| 23 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 24 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 25 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |
| 26 | If they extend it to seven they will deserve automatic promotion . |
| 27 | When gas comes from volcanic regions the ratio of 3 He to 4 He is eight to fifteen times greater than found in the atmosphere and crustal rock . ’ |
| 28 | We call it minus three I still owe you |
| 29 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 30 | So you 're trying to find out one fifth well you just divide it by five it 's the easy way to do it . |