Example sentences of "[prep] five [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 2 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 3 | Thus if I raise a two-pound weight through a height of five feet I have increased its potential energy by ten foot pounds . |
| 4 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 5 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 6 | Well if they 're not here in five minutes I 'm going . |
| 7 | We we we finish in five minutes I feel that |
| 8 | In five days I 'm off to Scandinavia , and that should be a new thing . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're not on your feet in five seconds I 'll open your leg to the bone . |
| 10 | In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink . |
| 11 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 12 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 13 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 14 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 15 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 16 | For five months I slept with the baby , it was so cold . |
| 17 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 18 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 19 | Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | by the time I had gone through five operations I decided that as long as I could breath , that would do me and I , I would really recommend every body to think twice before having any form of plastic surgery , particularly unless its , if its not absolutely necessary . |
| 21 | we 're just , we 're just running on five tapes I think , well only four because one of them are oh well , let's go upstairs again |
| 22 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |