Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 2 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 3 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 4 | ‘ I met them on one of my early trips out here . ’ |
| 5 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 6 | Langton led them through two more doors , finally coming to a small room with a desk and two chairs . |
| 7 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 8 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 9 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 10 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 11 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 12 | Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents . |
| 13 | That got me to thirty-and-five . |
| 14 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 15 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 16 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 17 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 18 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 19 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 20 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 21 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 22 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 23 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 24 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 25 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 26 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 27 | The last time some of these plates were printed was in 1906 , by Alvin Beaumont , whose family sold them in 1938 . |
| 28 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 29 | My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred . |
| 30 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |