Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 2 | Det Ch Insp Roy Lambert said there was nothing to connect the two men with the car . |
| 3 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 4 | After all , I made the 1989 side after using the new putter for only six months . |
| 5 | I unlocked the three clasps , took out the faded petals of a flower wrapped in oiled leather , as well as all the letters and documents from that fateful summer of 1520 . |
| 6 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 7 | I mean the sixteen years , what , what time ? |
| 8 | For example I mean the one thing about the Europe that the Eastbourne electorate apparently ah understood erm was I 'm sorry the Christchurch electorate understood , was a social contract . |
| 9 | I mean the one thing that Neil Webb can do , as you say he he 's missed a lot of football he played against our Reserves Thursday night , but the one thing he can do if he get an opportunity he can produce a telling ball . |
| 10 | I mean the one thing that has happened in recent times , and I do n't like prophecies so , I do n't wish to be a part of one , let's be clear about that , I 'm doing this as an analyst . |
| 11 | I mean the one department you would have thought would have been enough . |
| 12 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
| 13 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 14 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 15 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 16 | Cos I I got the two science lectures and thought I 'll try and get a couple of arts lectures , |
| 17 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 18 | When I reviewed the GR-50 back in December ‘ 91 , I went into some detail regarding the fitting of the GK-2 pickup to the guitar of your choosing . |
| 19 | Well I found the twenty pound in the end but the fifty pound we could n't find it , we checked everything so i fortunately I said to I had them re-checked on Monday during the day for cash up |
| 20 | ‘ I moved the six kids into the back bedroom for safety , ’ Cornelius said . |
| 21 | But I am unable to see , however carefully I reread the 1969 Act , that Parliament had in that year taken any clear stance on it . |
| 22 | On Wednesday 20th November I caught the 1540 ex . |
| 23 | I want the two cousins to fall in love and marry . |
| 24 | ( I excluded the one woman who had a full-time job from this tabulation since this was the one respect in which her housework situation was not directly comparable with that of the other women . ) |
| 25 | Alton Towers in fact was a record turnover and profit and I think it justifies our marketing of goods I mentioned the two investments on new rides earlier and that was designed to move the audience from the white socks brigade to family unions , it seems to be working very well |
| 26 | I grab the two pieces closest to my foot . |
| 27 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 28 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 29 | When he gave me a copy of his complete works in September of 1943 inscribed from a ‘ sincere friend ’ , I noted the four lines opposite the title page : |
| 30 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |