Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their approach led them to choose 17 specific and common situations as the basis of a questionnaire . |
| 2 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 3 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 4 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
| 5 | I am thirty-eight years old , but the way he went on about my profligacy , short-sightedness and general pansying about made me feel twelve all over again . |
| 6 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 7 | Well you do n't know I mean you do n't know , you might say right twenty grand and then he might say oh no I 've re-considered I want twenty two and then he might say I 'm not gon na turn up . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 9 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 10 | In my day well every man had an allowance er and we bought our own provisions but every man er they were supposed to be by the commissioners but you got I think seven and six pence a day each man got seven and six pence and we clubbed that money together and bought our provisions er like that . |
| 11 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 12 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 13 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 14 | ‘ Astorre helped me kill two of them . |
| 15 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |
| 16 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 17 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 18 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 19 | When a friend invited her to attend one of the Christian community study groups , she was deeply impressed by the contrast and decided to join the community : |
| 20 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 21 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 22 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 23 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 24 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
| 25 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 26 | But from the time the engine stopped he had five or six seconds to hit the ground . |
| 27 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 28 | Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country . |
| 29 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 30 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |