Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger .
2 No , I I thought Nine man 's morris , I thought it was a ga er , a dance .
3 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 .
4 And then when , when , when he er going he said I I pay fifty P a week he said !
5 Dey are militant an I like dem I hope one day we 'll meet
6 Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with .
7 but I you said three hours or so .
8 So if I you get forty grand now
9 I think you have to sort of , lay your ground rules , I mean state your case , quite early on and it , I mean , you know , if , if you 're not good first thing in the morning , you know , you could tell someone you need three cups of coffee before you 're safe to approach or if erm , there 's a lazy slob who sort of lies on the sofa all day , you could throw the dishcloth at him , or erm , and also , I mean if it , if there are sort of badly behaved pets and , and children , erm , you know , just , just do n't invite them , and if that means your guest list is , is somewhat shorter then all to the good .
10 By which I mean two things .
11 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 .
12 I have kept a journal , which I hope one day to publish .
13 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 .
14 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 !
15 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 …
16 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 ?
17 I have a soft water community of Discus , Clown Loach and Angels , to which I introduced two Red-Claw Crabs .
18 Lot sixty four is er advertising items , records and other bits and pieces for which I have sixty pounds offered , any more at sixty five seventy five , eighty five , ninety five , one hundred ten , one twenty thirty , one forty , one hundred and forty pounds with me , are you all done , one fifty in the middle , one sixty one seventy one hundred and seventy , any more ?
19 Lot forty is the Zonophone advertisement now showing , thank you , Lot forty for which I have eighty pounds offered , ninety , one hundred and ten , one twenty , one thirty one thirty standing , any more at one thirty ?
20 One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago .
21 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 ?
22 With reference to your letter of 22 July in which you request 4 days compassionate leave following the death of your mother .
23 Finally , Citalia has devised a holiday in which you spend seven nights in the ancient city of Rome then drive to Ovindoli in Abruzzo , ideally placed to explore the spectacular landscape of the Abruzzo National Park .
24 Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party .
25 She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea .
29 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 .
30 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 …
  Next page