Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised when Newsround came and we had to sing Ding dong merrily on high again after singing it three times before . |
| 2 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 3 | The 25-year-old striker scored 13 goals in 50 games for Norwich after joining them two years ago from Port Vale for £925,000 , but has been left out of the squad for the past 11 games . |
| 4 | Most children reject new foods the first time they are offered , but if your child clearly finds the food disagreeable , even after trying it three or four times , then do n't serve it up again . |
| 5 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 6 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 7 | But while some reasons favour monthly payments and others favour quarterly ones , neither is sufficient to establish the superiority of doing it one way rather than the other . |
| 8 | I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound |
| 9 | Lucy was quite pleased by the Magistrate 's interest and was considering making him one of her favourites . |
| 10 | The fences hold no fears for this big fellow and he has a marvellous chance according to his trainer of making it two in a row and thereby join a small but privileged group . |
| 11 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 12 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 13 | I am still waiting for to give me one or two ideas for his 18th birthday present — though I shall make the final decision ! ! |
| 14 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 15 | We you know , I could have got away with giving you seventeen and half percent ! |
| 16 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 17 | In a book published in 1975 , he praises Montini for the courage he had displayed in supporting him twenty years earlier , but adds this comment : One does not have to accept all of that to recognize that the assessment is shrewd . |
| 18 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
| 19 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |
| 20 | When she finished , Nick had a few muttered words with his colleagues before asking her one or two questions , mostly concerning times , places and names . |
| 21 | Midway , a loop road branches from the A683 and runs at a higher level before rejoining it two and a half miles further on . |
| 22 | Surely he knows you 're well warned already , but for his honour he can not keep from underscoring it three times . ’ |
| 23 | The aria ‘ He was despised ’ can be quite a drag in the wrong hands , but she succeeds in making it one of the highpoints of the Oratorio , even though she appears to be under attack from a boa constrictor half way through . |
| 24 | STEPHEN HENDRY , brimming with confidence after beating Steve Davis in the final of the Stormseal UK Snooker Open , inflicted an 8-0 session whitewash on Terry Griffiths before beating him 9-3 in their best-of-17-frame quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at Brentwood yesterday . |
| 25 | He whistled now and tinkled an imaginary drum , before offering me three teeth of golden maize . |
| 26 | I 'm safe to getting mine sevens yeah |
| 27 | So move from buying it every d every weekday say to moving it f to buying it four days a week . |
| 28 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 29 | The simple price structure of Parcelforce Standard ensures it is just as cost-effective to send a parcel 300 miles as it is to sent it 30 miles . |
| 30 | Even as her senses swam out of focus from the sweet , cruel pleasure he was inflicting , he insisted on taking her one heartless step further . |