Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 3 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 4 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 5 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 6 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 7 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 8 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 9 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 10 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 11 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | Nothing for ten months . |
| 13 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 14 | Five management personnel brought in a local French teacher , Eileen Hutchinson through Pontefract company ‘ Communication 92 ’ to lead them through two hours of French instruction each week using a text book and cassette tape course . |
| 15 | This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . |
| 16 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 17 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 18 | If you had four things and you wanted to divide them between four people |
| 19 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 20 | The Company jet-copter dropped them off two blocks from the ancient heart of Vienna . |
| 21 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 22 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 23 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 24 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 25 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 26 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 27 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 28 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 29 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 30 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |