Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No , I I thought Nine man 's morris , I thought it was a ga er , a dance .
2 That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin .
3 Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with .
4 but I you said three hours or so .
5 Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again .
6 Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there .
7 On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent .
8 What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association .
9 Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies !
10 He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time …
11 When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ?
12 I have a soft water community of Discus , Clown Loach and Angels , to which I introduced two Red-Claw Crabs .
13 One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago .
14 These are applications which you wrote ten years ago and they may have been written in a an old like COBOL , but they meet a business need and if they 're meeting the business need day in day out then why should you replace them ?
15 Only if you satisfied the selection board there were you allowed to carry on and start basic training , which itself lasted four months .
16 Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party .
17 She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States .
18 At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community .
19 In 1657 in Marlborough she attempted to speak in the church following the service , was attacked , brought before a magistrate , and imprisoned for six weeks , during which she fasted six days .
20 Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea .
21 THE VISIT by Mother Teresa to Ireland is going ahead — but is expected to be scaled down because of her recent fall in which she broke three ribs .
22 She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places …
23 Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers .
24 Until she passed on , which she did two weeks past .
25 Experts are still attempting to establish what caused the filly to test positive to a banned substance after her 40-length defeat by Indian Quest at Kempton last month , for which she started 6-4 favourite .
26 For instance this bit of woodland which we planted fifteen years ago — it 's becoming part of the countryside and in another generation will be here as a bit of habitat for wildlife — it 's of no monetary significance at all .
27 ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue .
28 On Thursday March 9 , Spare Rib hosted a forum to which we invited eleven women representing a broad range of positions within the women 's movement .
29 In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon .
30 The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season .
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