Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some children of seven or eight know exactly what they are doing but there are some 13-years-olds who do n't seem to know . ’ |
| 2 | Not only did I have loops at the edge , but seven or eight stitches actually leapt off the needles . |
| 3 | Particles of spin 0 , 1 , or 2 do also exist in some circumstances as real particles , when they can be directly detected . |
| 4 | How can you , could you do that if you 've got I mean he 's about twelve or thirteen comes home from school |
| 5 | Two or three look so pale and frail , you wonder whether the heat and the heavy robes will all be too much . |
| 6 | Quoted loads were 2,000 kg of cargo or 25 pax over 600 km , or 500 kg over 2,500 km , max cruise 420 kph . |
| 7 | Especially since you travel er , er , twenty or thirty to get there . |
| 8 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 9 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |
| 10 | One or two looked questioningly at Cameron but he was absorbed in thinking up phrases . |
| 11 | Troops were moving through the village heading in the direction of the attack area and the artillery fire had increased in support of the attack , the usual odd shell or two dropping short causing casualties among the troops moving along the road . |
| 12 | The stand swayed alarmingly under their weight and one or two screamed nervously . |
| 13 | Before Mr Aycliffe went to see Miss Kyte to fulfil his promise to Mr Beckenham a week or two had already gone by . |
| 14 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 15 | One or two had quite responsible positions in their employment . |
| 16 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 17 | Her euphoria had been considerably aided and abetted by the intake of some gin and orange drinks and a cocktail or two given freely to those selected few responsible for the organising of such a grand evening . |
| 18 | His post-operative progress was complicated by a chest infection and he found it very difficult to regain his usual level of activity because his arthritis seemed worse after the operation and a day or two spent largely in bed . |
| 19 | Exorbitant champagne prices can make the pleasure of marking a special occasion with a bottle or two seem all-too fleeting at such high cost . |
| 20 | They would visit the cemetery together : ‘ she would take a tram car , see she 'd one or two buried there , it was her own family , and we 'd go to the cemetery nearly every Sunday if the weather was good . |
| 21 | It figures it 'll get one or two to commit probably in time for Spring Comdex and will eventually get five , but whether it 's out of this lot remains unclear . |
| 22 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 23 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 24 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 25 | for a night or two to have somewhere that they know they can at least kip on the floor . |
| 26 | More than two-thirds have previously been involved in making an acquisition and most are in their forties . |
| 27 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 28 | We watched as a boy no more than ten slumped forward . |
| 29 | The Skin Tonique comes in its own compact and stylish vanity case and would normally cost £19.95 but we have no less than TWELVE to give away ! |
| 30 | Fact : With more than 150 operating worldwide over 30 years , the PWR already is the established international option . |