Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead of me was an elliptical circle of maybe twenty people , the combined ages of whom must have seventy score and ten . |
| 2 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 3 | And before I go on I must set one thing straight . |
| 4 | At the risk of harping on about U2 , as the entire legions of the media has recently , I must mention two reports from the Irish Press . |
| 5 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 6 | Obviously one does not want to get involved in discussing individual cases , but I must make one exception and express the perplexity with which I read such drastically negative judgements on Zanardi 's work at Parma . |
| 7 | I must correct one statement attributed in the article to Mr Wyman . |
| 8 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |
| 9 | I must say one thing . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've travelled in the rush hour myself , and I must say two passengers in one compartment seems unlikely . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I should think four pounds would do . ’ |
| 12 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 13 | Mum do you reckon I should make two paddles ? |
| 14 | What I felt was quite different from what I decided I should feel two days ago . |
| 15 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 16 | When originally designed , it was decided that the RISC I should execute one instruction per cycle , all instructions should be the same size , only load and store instructions would access memory , the rest would operate between registers , and that RISC I would be designed specifically with high-level languages in mind . |
| 17 | I should get two cards for that should n't I ? |
| 18 | With a bit of luck I should get three hours sleep . |
| 19 | Well I think I should get three points for knowing that now . |
| 20 | If you go there you need it here , so actually do you think I should have two paddles ? |
| 21 | But perhaps I should add one work of warning : look in the front of such books for the date of publication , be careful if they are at all old . |
| 22 | It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English . |
| 23 | I 've been told I should wait three months before trying for a baby again — but why is this advice given ? |
| 24 | Perhaps I might suggest three stages that should be considered as a route to achieving this goal . |
| 25 | ‘ Who knows what I might do one day ! ’ |
| 26 | The only other thing that I 've thought I might do one day is do a country album . |
| 27 | I do n't know how much to take , I might take ten pounds worth or something , I do n't need that much why , I need some money for Saturday as well do n't I ? , should n't need that much though |
| 28 | able to do my job , I might need thirty days ' training . |
| 29 | I can , I might have two holidays now , two days ' holiday . |
| 30 | Because without those eleven appointments I 've calculated I might have two blow outs , two people might want to rearrange , two people want to think about it , I 've got to have my eleven , to make my two sales . |