Example sentences of "[pos pn] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 2 | I enjoy working as part of a team , and after four years looking after my two sons I am eager to return to working outside home . |
| 3 | ‘ To my two sons I am still just the old crow . |
| 4 | On my two visits I met many ordinary people who have great respect and affection for their prime minister . |
| 5 | Without my two passengers I will also go faster . ’ |
| 6 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 7 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 8 | Barry Pexton 45 , a former dog handler in the Sultan of Brunei 's army , and his wife Carol , 38 , left their rented home , West End Cottage , Staxton , near Scarborough , last Wednesday telling their two daughters they were going for a drink . |
| 9 | In its four quarters he kept his four ‘ wives ’ , each totally oblivious of the others , until sheer misfortune led to his discovery and his just deserts . |
| 10 | In her two volumes she refers to more than eighty specific types of trees , flowers , plants and vegetables . |
| 11 | Supported by her two companions she found that she need not even move her feet . |
| 12 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 13 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 14 | Hmm , well , okay , last night Mickey , you and I just about wrote off Lester Piggott 's career , and er today , well inside the last furlong of er one of his three races I believe today , this is how Rapid Raceline 's course commentator John Penny , saw the closing stages . |
| 15 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 16 | ( 15 ) was both District and Scottish Boxing Champion in 1992 , winning 16 out of his 18 bouts He received his trophy earlier this month from mother |
| 17 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 18 | In his 42 Tests he has landed 588 points . |
| 19 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 20 | In his four hands he holds a sceptre , a string of beads , a bow and a book of scripture . |
| 21 | As examples of such projects in our three districts we would draw to your attention : |
| 22 | In our five years we have supported many country issues and charities . |
| 23 | ‘ If we win four of our nine games we should get into the play-offs . ’ |
| 24 | If you had to stay away on your two days you 're out with the trainer then we will pay you thirty pound a night subsistence . |
| 25 | First , by coupling up the battery resources of our two vessels we have ample electric power to lift this wreck . |