Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 2 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 3 | I could wait another forty eight hours while you wait results of that one you see |
| 4 | Baby Jasmine TYaylor died just eight hours after she was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 5 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |
| 6 | Fifty minutes after she left , at about 3pm , two UFF gunmen walked into the Jon David salon in the west of the city and shot Mr Hughes ( 40 ) several times . |
| 7 | We 've matched Portadown and Glentoran over 120 minutes so we know we are in with a chance . |
| 8 | POSTIES in Luton , Beds , are claiming a record after delivering a second class letter 75 minutes after it was posted . |
| 9 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 10 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 11 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 12 | It was eight months before he struck again . |
| 13 | Eight months before he had fought as an independent against an official Conservative at a bye-election in the Abbey division of Westminster . |
| 14 | He saw the announcement as presumptuous , with Lineker clearly implying he would be in England 's squad eight months before it was announced . |
| 15 | Eight months after she returned to her home in Langley Vale , near Ep som , Surrey , the dream was shattered . |
| 16 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 17 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 18 | Therefore the company could increase their capacity by another 4,444 units if they 80 wished . |
| 19 | The HWIM system had only 1,362 entries whereas we had 4,000 potential candidates in the lexicon ( excluding reduced forms ) , with plans to increase this to 20,000 . |
| 20 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 21 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 22 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 23 | Thirty-six hours since he had been roused . |
| 24 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 25 | The confusion cleared up , the paddlers left the beach at 0625 , nearly 12 hours after they had been launched from their submarine . |
| 26 | Brandon Lee , 28 , died on Wednesday 12 hours after he was hit in the stomach by a projectile fired from a blank pistol during filming of The Crow . |
| 27 | Besides , the magazine reported that almost unbelievably , the government had stopped advance copies of scientific annual reports being issued to weekly journals because London 's evening newspaper , The Standard , had printed ( heinous ! dastardly ! ) details of awards to Falkland troops as much as 12 hours before they were officially released . |
| 28 | The first review must take place within 24 hours , and preferably within 12 hours if you are not to spend a lot of time later in resurrecting the item and trying to remember it . |
| 29 | For example , patients waiting in an out-patient department knowing that it will be 30 minutes before they are seen may be happier than those who wait half as long , not knowing how long the wait will be . |
| 30 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |