Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 yours a two litre ?
2 Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ .
3 I give you a hundred back
4 So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it .
5 If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches .
6 And they 'll give you a one year warrantee .
7 Tell your family and friends about York 's great service , and when we receive their first order , we 'll send you a 24 exposure York film absolutely FREE .
8 Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine .
9 ‘ You find you a 40 gallon drum , chop the top out with a hammer and cold chisel , turn it over and make four big holes with the pointed end of a pickaxe .
10 When you think of the work that the old grocer used to have to do you know , make you a three corner bag out of a bit of paper , to put a pennyworth of pepper in .
11 Several times he lent Brian and me a 410 shotgun and took us shooting along the shore , and when we got back told his skinner to stuff the birds we had shot ; I was thrilled by these expeditions .
12 Do you still owe me a thirty pound ?
13 ‘ Just give me a one way ticket to Gloucester before I break your fat necK ! ’
14 Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish .
15 Is my dad gon na give me a hundred pound ?
16 So you owe me a hundred pound .
17 Your mum gave me a ninety niner and a
18 She gave me a ninety niner .
19 Give me a three letter word for a .
20 Me a twenty packet of number ten .
21 He scored his fourth high-quality goal to get them a 6-6 draw with just two seconds remaining .
22 With five minutes to go , it looked like a Haslemere win , but an error in the lineout call resulted in a Mariners try which was converted , giving them a 22–13 lead .
23 The Green Bay Packers kept alive their play-off bid when Brett Favre 's six-yard pass to Sterling Sharpe late in the game gave them a 16-14 win at the Houston Oilers .
24 Dallas seemed to have the game in their hands after Aikman 's two five-yard touchdown passes to Jay Novacek earned them a 17-7 half-time lead .
25 Last time they met , Craig Maskell gave them a 1-0 win on a plate .
26 A town is in mourning after two people , one of them a nine year old boy , died in separate holiday accidents in the United States .
27 I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all
28 The Weeks Collection was one of the most significantly privately-owned museums in the United States , and included many rare or unique airworthy antiques and warbirds , among them a B-17 Fortress , Douglas B-23 Dragon , Grumman Duck amphibian , Hellcat , Tigercat , P-51D Mustang , Seversky P-35 , and the former Patrick Lindsay 's Sopwith Triplane replica .
29 When Len sent them a five pound order , or ten pound
30 Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win .
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