Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us . |
| 2 | My son Mark was eight months when he started and Rachel was 2½ . |
| 3 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 4 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 5 | Their football was a credit to Hand , and Cecere ensured that it would at least be rewarded by an extra 30 minutes when he collected Maskell 's pass and tucked the ball behind Steve Sutton . |
| 6 | In Oz13 and It33 a letter from a ‘ surrealist group ’ including jazz singer/writer George Melly was published giving twenty-one reasons why they needed ‘ Danny the Red ’ Cohn-Bendit , the media 's nominee for ‘ leadership ’ of the May Events . |
| 7 | Then having to kill forty minutes when he could have been in bed and now this : the delay in visiting the dry cleaner 's meant a vital piece of evidence might have been destroyed . |
| 8 | Simply answer our question by ticking the appropriate box and then tell us in no more than 12 words why you would like to be a Clairol winner . |
| 9 | Leonard Coote , President has a record of service to the Association extending back in excess of 30 years when he was first elected a branch representative . |
| 10 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 11 | Connolly who grabbed the opening try after 10 minutes when he kicked through following good work from Griffiths . |
| 12 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 13 | The only Clough contribution came after just six minutes when he released Keane . |
| 14 | David Manderson gave Scarborough the lead after six minutes when he intercepted an off-target Dave Logan shot and clipped the ball over keeper Andy Collett . |
| 15 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 16 | Mrs Kirstine Fry had suffered the misfortune to open a registered letter from the increasingly unpopular Flashman , dismissing her husband and outlining six reasons why he had to go . |
| 17 | ‘ He gave six reasons why I was getting the push , and they 're all crap . |
| 18 | They want erm English thirteen year-olds why they chose me I shall never know . |
| 19 | that have got six months where they want to get in before they get stuck into their studying again . |
| 20 | Kieran has now Rostrevor home to Dublin for six months where he intends , as he puts it , to ‘ lie low ’ for a while , writing songs and preparing for his and Frances 's second album . |
| 21 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 22 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 23 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 24 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 25 | A couple , okay , after the six months when it stops , presumably we 're going to be in a position of , on State Benefits . |
| 26 | ( 14 May 1778 ) In the same letter Mozart informed his father that he had unofficially been offered the post of organist at Versailles which , if he were to accept , would mean spending six months of the year in Versailles and the remaining six months wherever he liked . |
| 27 | ask you to while I read this the the six companies where we market our brochures or product |
| 28 | Now I have one of those erm it is a luxury because I have erm six companies where I want people in the north east . |
| 29 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 30 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |