Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 2 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll be building them one day , I tell you , ’ he said softly . |
| 4 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 5 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 6 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 7 | I have to pay tax on that lot mind , but I mean it 's something you know like it 's still costing me fifty pounds |
| 8 | I 'm gon na say to him in future , it 's costing me four quid |
| 9 | costing you ten pound a month for newspapers ? |
| 10 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 11 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 12 | Without more water , Georgians reply , their state will have to restrict growth , costing it 680,000 jobs and $127 billion in wages by 2010 . |
| 13 | it was costing us two pound fifty per week |
| 14 | and it was costing us ten quid a month for the newspapers |
| 15 | Because the price of a single was almost the same as the price of the return but to get a refund you have to pay an administration charge which when you add it all up comes to me owing them four pounds . |
| 16 | In England at that time shop girls would have a weekly wage of about twenty-five shillings so John Tiller was giving dancers an excellent deal by paying them fifty shillings a week when on tour , matinées providing an extra ten shillings . |
| 17 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 18 | I would n't fancy owing him two bob . ’ |
| 19 | apparently turned up this morning and they want a hundred pound by tomorrow , and they 're coming back tomorrow for it paying him ten pound a week and thought it was gone and he had er none so find a hundred pound by tomorrow and she did n't know where she was going to get it from , she just stood there and burst into tears and run off going on |
| 20 | This was the first kidnapping for ransom since November 1986 , when the NPA had seized a Japanese executive , releasing him four months later after the payment of a ransom . |
| 21 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |
| 22 | They keep paying us forty quid a month , I 'm gon na get a nice fourteen and a half grand this year . |
| 23 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 24 | In a book published in 1975 , he praises Montini for the courage he had displayed in supporting him twenty years earlier , but adds this comment : One does not have to accept all of that to recognize that the assessment is shrewd . |
| 25 | I tell them they could be wearing it one day . ’ |
| 26 | So move from buying it every d every weekday say to moving it f to buying it four days a week . |
| 27 | I said mine are getting it three times ! |
| 28 | Begin with the corner motif , positioning it 7 cm from the edge . |
| 29 | The sergeant instructed him to take him into the police station and charge him with taking a vehicle without consent — the offence as complete by moving it thirty yards . |
| 30 | Stretch the leg forwards and back 30 times , each time moving it 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) . |