Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chapter 2 I discussed one of the central aims of the English curriculum , which is to extend the range of language in which children are competent . |
| 2 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 3 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 4 | ‘ When we led 12-11 we had three free kicks against us which took the momentum out of our play . ’ |
| 5 | In 1987-88 they received 7 per cent and in 1988-89 , 8.9 per cent ( or the rate of inflation plus 2.5 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Its share of wool exports rose too , though less strikingly , in 1374–75 and 1424–25 the figure was between 40 and 45 per cent , by 1474–75 it exceeded 50 per cent and in 1524–25 it was 66 per cent . |
| 7 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 8 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 9 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 10 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 11 | According to a report on Radio Afghanistan on Dec. 30 he received 916 votes and there were 59 votes against . |
| 12 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 13 | The success of BEFIEX can be judged by the fact that by 1985 it covered 40 per cent of all manufactures , with a significant increase of the net trade generated ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : p. 116 ) . |
| 14 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 15 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 16 | There 's supposed to be six I think three at each side and then there 's some feelers and things knocking about a bit there . |
| 17 | Three Eight Six I reckon Three Eight Six . |
| 18 | " In the year 1929 I used two rock-crystal vases in which were branches of white orchids , but those days are gone I fear for ever , and a few white carnations have to suffice now . |
| 19 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 20 | Okay well you put three times twelve that 's what you were going to say so , if Claire puts six times six you put three times twelve and I 'll put four times nine just to be awkward . |
| 21 | Cut it in half , six you add four ? |
| 22 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 23 | If they get one customer they get ten pounds but if they 're unlucky enough to get thirteen they get ten pounds . |
| 24 | By the middle of nineteen twenty six they had thirty thousand members and then they peaked in the early part of nineteen twenty seven with sixty thousand members . |
| 25 | Yet , after becoming dean of York in 1406 he did one more reshuffle of his holdings , then never changed them again . |
| 26 | It was low in numbers a century ago , when the Piedmonts of Italy were being imported for beef and good red milking cows came from Bergamo , but by 1979 it numbered 150,000 and is now a well-established milk and meat breed in France , though almost extinct in Italy , where it is known as the Tarina . |
| 27 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 28 | From 2 June 1832–1845 it carried 200,000 to 300,000 passengers per year — more passengers per mile than the Liverpool and Manchester railway . |
| 29 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 30 | In a dramatic press conference in January 1963 he vetoed two important Anglo-American initiatives . |