Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [num] people " in BNC.
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1 | Detectives want to trace two people ; one of them a scruffy man with a centre parting seen on the towpath of the Stroudwater canal behind the house on the afternoon of the killing . |
2 | ‘ We aim to have two people riding 24 hours a day for ten days , ’ he said . |
3 | But I 've heard two people |
4 | So so far I 've let six people go . |
5 | We 've let five people go who would have joined for another two grand |
6 | We 've met two people who have had them . |
7 | Oh yeah , that 's what I 'm saying , there 's eight people used to go up I 've seen eight people leaving the Stenness Hotel crofters were around go round gillying for for the Stenness Hotel . |
8 | I 've seen 30 people aboard . |
9 | significantly every hour that they do on that is gon na be signific is , is not budgeted for cos you 've got fourteen people there who were n't budgeted for at all . |
10 | You 've got eleven people you need four groups you do n't have four groups it 's not worth doing is it ? |
11 | We 've got what , six phones , we 've got 2,4,6,8,10,12,13 people . |
12 | Just raised slightly does n't it yes and obviously if you 've got fifty people and you do n't have a microphone or anything then it becomes even more so . |
13 | We 've got twelve people coming , right ? |
14 | And then another two people come in so we 've got four people all together . |
15 | confusing because you 've got two people bringing in the ideas , |
16 | ‘ Now we 've got two people who admit going to the second floor that afternoon : Pascoe and Hunter-Blair . |
17 | Can I I know we 've got two people wanting to make comments on this . |
18 | Now nobody 's done it , now we 've got two people in our area and one packing line , so I suggest we get them three together now and sort it out as to who done it and if they have n't done it and then wait while the three o'clock mane comes on , see if he 's done it . |
19 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |
20 | It 's just a matter of er , i I mean all we need to do is , is , is sort out a sort of formal agreement with Elliel that , you know , and how , how the management company or the limited company 's going to sort of manage the place and th then we 'll er got to , you know , we 've got two people who 've got a , a very successful business they 're actually drinks ' suppliers , Morecambe Bay Wines and Spirits er , who are gon na come in and have er they 'll sign the cheque for the rent there and then , I mean it 's er it 's a matter of just th you know , all it is is , is they 're saying well , you know what actually is the formal arrangement ? |
21 | We ca n't do it next Saturday because erm we 've got two people , a Scotsman married to a Chinese |
22 | And I think that there is a very strong argument erm for getting women in the cabinet on the basis that if women are seen to be in the cabinet they are seen as competent , they 're seen as excellent politicians , and that 's why I go for a form of positive discrimination , which is that if you 've got two people who are equally well qualified , and if erm Mr Major decided that a man and a women were equally well qualified , then I think he should have chosen the woman erm |
23 | You 've got 1,800 people in a theatre you ca n't just let go to your grief , you learn to cut yourself off . |
24 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
25 | We 've got 33 people , which is well up on the the total from the old list . |
26 | We 've got 1,700 people here who have showed how much they feel about him . |
27 | So it 's now we 've got seven people , it 's gon na make it a lot easier for the first twenty containers which is forty containers in actual fact is n't it . |
28 | If you 've got ten people I mean there 's no guarantee they 're gon na work as well you . |
29 | you 've got forty people , you want somewhere bigger , then fine . |
30 | There are , there are people in there , they found almost everybody , they 've found two people that the principal was buried with , they finally had dug her up — she 's dead . |