Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You have given me thirty pence . |
| 2 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 3 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 4 | given me ten pound bonus |
| 5 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 6 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 7 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 8 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 9 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 10 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 11 | he says the toilet rolls the soft ones have dropped down , cos I get the soft Kleenex ones , everybody 's complaining about and he said they 'd dropped them three pound , is it twenty nine ? , to two eighty nine now |
| 12 | Romania 's inability to provide quick ball and their fumbling loss of possession often allowed the Scots to counter-attack from deep positions with the same instinctive fluency that has earned them 130 points in four games at Murrayfield this year . |
| 13 | I have enjoyed my twelve months as secretary and would like to thank the other committee members for their help and support , especially Alan . |
| 14 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
| 15 | much enjoyed my three years here but |
| 16 | So far only the local city authority has nominated its three members and the identity of the new President is still a matter of speculation : after ten years of Socialist rule the Christian Democrats feel it is their turn to be represented , but so far no suitable candidate has emerged . |
| 17 | He had claimed its 1.3 engine was 1.6 . |
| 18 | At the same time , he has put a warning shot across the bows of the rightwing pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , which has already committed its 88 members of parliament to supporting the minority government . |
| 19 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 20 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 21 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 22 | FLYING SCOTSMAN SERVICES have cancelled their two Welshman services which were planned for this month . |
| 23 | London 's Raven AC have rescheduled their 250 peg Keith Record Memorial on the Regents Canal for this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 24 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 25 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 26 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 27 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed , he had enjoyed his three score years and ten twice over before he thought it necessary to engage the regular services of a sports correspondent . |
| 29 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 30 | When designed our 486 PC , we made no compromises . |