Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll give me fifty pence for that at the souvenir shop , ’ Adam said . |
| 2 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 3 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 4 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 5 | " Re U 128 — representatives this Headquarters will arrive yours 25 May for discussion policy on lines suggested as follows : |
| 6 | I served my time in both India , Palestine , Gibraltar , Egypt and these sort of places abroad and when I , I nine months of my colour service to finish , which were a twelve year service , when war broke out in nineteen thirty nine . |
| 7 | THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else . |
| 8 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 9 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 10 | Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before . |
| 11 | His principal sexual enjoyment seemed to come from sleeping with young boys and his one foray into a heterosexual relationship ended dismally with his middle-aged paramour complaining , ‘ I ca n't seem to make him understand that biting 's no good . ’ |
| 12 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 13 | Despite his one night on Broadway , Dustin felt bitter , betrayed and disappointed . |
| 14 | His one concession to the heat was a grey suit in place of the usual Cabinet Office blue , with a Trinity 1st & 3rd tie . |
| 15 | Ben Kingsley plays Martin Boyns , a middle-aged engineer at the turn of the century who feels that life has passed him by , and his one chance of happiness is in marrying his longtime friend , Rose Sellars ( Kim Novak ) . |
| 16 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 17 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 18 | His one piece of good fortune that summer was that he resisted ( for the second time ) strong pressure from Jones for a meeting with Hitler . |
| 19 | They make a contribution to employment by virtue of an increase in employment density or or not , depending on whether that increase actually takes place but they do not contribute to the I five provision by virtue of not being a change of use . |
| 20 | I mean i what what we 're looking for is is the overall figure of this revised assessment of land availability for I five uses in the plan period , and your residue figure would be the one which would not likely to be made available before the year two thousand and six . |
| 21 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 22 | Their route will take them 230 miles across the Nares Straight towards west Greenland . |
| 23 | She may give me six inches in my height , but what she tells me , goes . ’ |
| 24 | and Boots own cleansing lotion for my mascara and that 's it , only buy mascara , eye liner and lipstick and blusher and that 's it and it does me six months of the year |
| 25 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 26 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
| 27 | Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance . |
| 28 | They 're about , that that makes them nineteen points in the lead . |
| 29 | Allow them three swings with the stick . |
| 30 | Moors are closing the gap steadily on the leading teams , and three points today could lift them three places into fifth . |