Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 5 | If you had four things and you wanted to divide them between four people |
| 6 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 7 | The Company jet-copter dropped them off two blocks from the ancient heart of Vienna . |
| 8 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 11 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 14 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 19 | The swine owes me for two weeks . |
| 20 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 21 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 22 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 23 | The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams . |
| 24 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 25 | I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day . |
| 26 | ‘ Excuse me for one minute . ’ |
| 27 | to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on . |
| 28 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 29 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 30 | So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson . |