Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
2 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
3 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
4 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
5 | And er you wo n't drive naturally for two reasons I suppose . |
6 | So for eighteen months we only met three times , when he visited during his leaves . |
7 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
8 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |
9 | Right , so after twenty seconds they 're up to full speed , and flat out , erm they 're at forty five degrees . |
10 | But obviously with twelve matches I 'm not gon na be able to spread it like I did last year . |
11 | So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through . |
12 | Together with three associates he was charged with organising 64,500 million yen in improper loans . |
13 | The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage . |
14 | Shrugging , she gazed pointedly at two Wrens she had not met before . |
15 | I can resolve it with my 28-cm reflecting telescope , but even in × 20 binoculars it shows up only as a blur . |
16 | So by 10 miles I was pretty depressed . |
17 | Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy . |
18 | Erm , you know she had this cancer seven years ago when she had her breast cancer and , had her breast taken off they 've now found it 's gone further in seven years she , you know , she was |
19 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
20 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
21 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
22 | Mary Newport , who spent her life in children 's homes and with foster parents , met up with three sisters she never knew she had . |
23 | So if you wan na split that up into five segments you divide three hundred and sixty by five which gives you ? |
24 | But it 's when you 're built up to nine pints it makes you |
25 | But he admits , cost-effectiveness does depend on the number of users involved — with up to 100 users it is cheaper to use Unix , while he personally would n't suggest running a mainframe with fewer than 200 users . |
26 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
27 | MK 's controller can communicate with 32 peripheral devices ( either transmitters or receivers ) , and it can remember UP to 160 things it has to do every day , week or month . |
28 | If the man had held out for five seconds he would have been dead . |
29 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
30 | When Vicky came out after three weeks she confirmed that fear . |