Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 2 | Oh yes you know sometimes an artist says the picture is his and two years later he denies and says it 's a false one |
| 3 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 4 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 5 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 6 | Er and at the end of the quarter I could n't pay that , then obviously you got no dividend on it because you still owed them that hundred pounds , but they would take the book away so you could n't get any more . |
| 7 | So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go |
| 8 | Eventually a papal legate , John of Anagni , arrived in northern France on a peace-making mission and he was able to obtain an undertaking from both Kings that they would abide by the decisions of an arbitration panel consisting of himself and four Archbishops , Rheims , Bourges , Rouen and Canterbury . |
| 9 | Michael Obins built a large Elizabethan-style residence for himself and 14 houses in which were settled 14 English families . |
| 10 | One of the several results was that it was very beneficial to fifteen actors like himself and eight directors who were ‘ hot ’ , and five good writers . |
| 11 | All the officers , except Dias himself and two others , sought asylum either with the British Consul ( and went on board the London ) or in the neutral zone in the hotels . |
| 12 | Benjamin 's next account is dated May 1847 and his pare was once again himself and two boys but this time for three months . |
| 13 | Himself and two colleagues , and even a car found for the escape run , and a homemade pistol that would be sufficient to unnerve the cashier clerks . |
| 14 | Not like the old days when me and two women from the village did the lot . |
| 15 | Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ? |
| 16 | A pine tree grew out of the face of the amphitheatre a little ahead of them and fifteen feet below the edge of the track . |
| 17 | After paying a driver and guard approximately £100 per day between them and 500 gallons of highly rebated gas oil ( for the locomotive ) , surely British Rail could be much more competitive . |
| 18 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 19 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 20 | Karen Darke suffered serious head and spinal injuries after plunging 25ft while she and four friends were climbing the cliff at Cove Bay . |
| 21 | , Frances Mary ( 1827–1894 ) , educator and founding figure in the girls ' public day-school movement in England , was born in London 16 August 1827 , the eldest of ten children ( of whom she and four brothers were survivors ) of Robert William Buss , painter and etcher , and his wife Frances Fleetwood . |
| 22 | She and nine patrons ( Mrs Boehm calls them ‘ the Angels ’ ) each agreed to give $100,000 , raising a total of $1 million , a sum to which the owners generously agreed . |
| 23 | On 10 June she and two companions , in a motor car , encountered a German roadblock at Salon-la-Tour , some thirty miles south-east of Limoges . |
| 24 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 25 | His wife , Rosemary , was sleeping in the room when the bomb exploded , blowing a hole in the floor , but she and three children in the room next door were unhurt . |
| 26 | IT IS a sunny morning and , leaning on your spade , you contemplate the dozen plots where you and 11 friends are building your dream homes … |
| 27 | That 's two cups for you and two cups for me . |
| 28 | ‘ You and three friends . |
| 29 | And then we 'll give you and seven horses . |
| 30 | Mystery House was a combination of an Agatha Christie novel and the boardgame Cluedo — you and seven others are exploring a long abandoned Victorian house to find the hidden treasure . |