Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |
| 2 | ‘ Will you let me lend you five pounds , Len , and take a couple of days at Southend , or somewhere ? ’ asked Clare . |
| 3 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 4 | ‘ Can I make you two gentlemen a cup of tea or coffee ? ’ |
| 5 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 6 | Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are . |
| 7 | I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline . |
| 8 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 9 | I met him one spring day thirty years ago in the beautiful Kentish countryside where he lived . |
| 10 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 11 | I make it fifteen minutes to go . |
| 12 | ‘ I make it eighty fathoms here , sir . |
| 13 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
| 14 | I took , yeah , he , I got him one couple of years ago . |
| 15 | I got you three quarters . |
| 16 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 17 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 18 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 19 | Well I helped you one year |
| 20 | yeah , cos I 'm not er paying , I 'm not giving up my summer holidays and I want me five weeks |
| 21 | I weighed you two ounces . |
| 22 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 23 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 24 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 25 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 26 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 27 | Shall I give him two straws ? |
| 28 | My crew were never aware of my lapse and I am just as ashamed to tell this story today as I would had I told it 45 years ago . |
| 29 | I give her two quid . |
| 30 | I give him two barm cakes and we had one each and before we 'd finished , started our second half of our one , he 'd ate the two , give him a custard and he 'd ate it |