Example sentences of "[pron] in [num] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Carl Chinn , Birmingham graduate , former bookie and soon to be Community Historian in Birmingham Studies at the University , speaks out in defence of his home city , which in 1989 voted him ‘ Brummie of the Year ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 3 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 4 | However , over one in five said they would prefer weekly . |
| 5 | Among financial and personnel managers generally , one in four admitted they would not choose the same career again , 60% were satisfied with their choice , and 15% were unsure . |
| 6 | Only a quarter said they did it for love and just over one in six admitted it was a drunken fling . |
| 7 | One in eight said they would prefer to have the instalments collected individually . |
| 8 | One in five of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed believed that it costs less than £4000 per person , one in three estimated costs in the range of £4000 to £6000 and a further one in three thought it costs over £6000 per employee . |
| 9 | And only a fraction over one in ten said they even fancied someone else , a survey for TV Times and ITV 's Wish You Were Here programme found . |
| 10 | The final reference to it in 1577 described it as being ‘ so utterly ruinated … that ( it ) hardly can be judged where ( it ) hath stood ’ . |