Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
| 2 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
| 3 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 4 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
| 5 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
| 6 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
| 7 | And she 'd got five wolf whistles . |
| 8 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 9 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 10 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 11 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 12 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 13 | The UN relief authorities planned to use five aircraft to transport 10,000 tonnes of food a month . |
| 14 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |
| 15 | In Islington the financial advisers set a maximum of £50,000 , but the council decided to invest five times that . |
| 16 | They decided to put five pounds a week into a fund from their dole giros . |
| 17 | Donaghy admitted taking five pairs of jeans , value £185 and £1,000 worth of other clothing as well as £540 in cash . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that only three weeks were available between his first viewing of the premises and the date for submission of offers , Russell Mills managed to find five collaborators , and their tender succeeded in competition against bids from office developers , engineering firms and an art college . |
| 19 | So , apart from building tennis and squash courts , he managed to fit five holes of golf into a part of the school grounds and encouraged the boys to have a go . |
| 20 | David 's father used to tell him that he believed Oswald was innocent and Paul became hooked five years ago after reading a book . |
| 21 | For some reason which escapes me we had to take a taxi , and when we arrived at Helsinki airport we had to wait five hours for our flight . |
| 22 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 23 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 24 | He said he had received five calls from angry parents or grandparents who had similar problems to the child portrayed on television . |
| 25 | Ferguson revealed Mal Donaghy had received five stitches in an eye wound . |
| 26 | COMICAL ’ and ‘ absurd ’ was how Jean-Paul Rappeneau greeted the news that the Oscar for the best foreign film had gone not to his ‘ Cyrano de Bergerac ’ , which had received five nominations , but to a Turkish-speaking Swiss film , ‘ Journey of Hope ’ . |
| 27 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 28 | In your Japanese Grand Prix report ( 28 October ) , you say Honda had won five constructors ' championships in the last 10 years . |
| 29 | The Omonia organization , which had previously represented their interests and had won five seats in the 1991 general election , had been barred from presenting candidates under the February 1991 electoral legislation . |
| 30 | And forthwith he made a vow in her hands that he would never accompany with her , neither in the desert nor in the inhabited place , till he had won five battles in the field . |