Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 2 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 3 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 4 | But you leave the cup on the table and she 'll call you back every ten |
| 5 | ‘ That reminds me , I must give you back the two pounds you sent me . |
| 6 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 7 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 8 | And it seems that if I go Steve , right , bring me up a dozen sweets and I have n't selled one of them well that would be |
| 9 | I do n't know whether it was relevant or not but I would , I 'd ask how did you manage to finance these policies , if you 're taking one out every two or three years , you know , obviously increment in salary or something of that nature might be relevant so something that the person was conscious of , they were using their money to buy er s er savings plans . |
| 10 | you know the top one out the two |
| 11 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 12 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |
| 13 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
| 14 | He scored on a header and also had a great run chasing a pole from 10 meters behind and almost catched him over a 30 m run . |
| 15 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 16 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 17 | They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it . |
| 18 | Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) . |
| 19 | Gary Stebbing was a stylish England Youth international and sometime captain who joined the Palace straight from school in 1983 and played in a variety of midfield and defensive positions for us over a five year span . |