Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [num] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean the sixteen years , what , what time ? |
| 7 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ I moved the six kids into the back bedroom for safety , ’ Cornelius said . |
| 11 | I want the two cousins to fall in love and marry . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I grab the two pieces closest to my foot . |
| 14 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | I hope that , that the assembly will not take this addendum and then I hope the two boards concerned will take on the issue as Mr suggested . |
| 20 | I watch the two blokes through the window then I carry on walking . |
| 21 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
| 22 | I feel its failure every time I recall the two sisters who went into a Belfast cafe in the early 1970s and came out with no legs . |
| 23 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 24 | I know the two hours on and four off takes a bit of getting used to , but … perhaps you do n't realise what an important job you 're doing . ’ |
| 25 | a make some general comments about the , I mean I like that we talked about that before , I like the ten levels |
| 26 | I walked the four miles home to the forge , thinking about all I had seen . |
| 27 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 28 | I had a perm on Friday and then rushed off to the dentist for an emergency white cement type filling to fill my Friday 13th loss ( ! ) — maddening to have to go back again as it is the other side of town , but I walked the two miles or so home , along with Bella . |
| 29 | When I first came to Shieldaig , I walked the twelve miles from Lochcarron in the south , on the only road giving access to the village , a road badly rutted and offering no invitation to wheels and , indeed , no vehicles passed me . |
| 30 | I get the two things confused . |