Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of one hour for four weeks he 's |
2 | Well , I think it erm , very , I mean I think as you said Chairman , if erm , there 's a clear majority for one party it 'll unblock a whole lot of delay and decision making which I think is going on and I think that that should be helpful . |
3 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
4 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
5 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
6 | Neil for two congresses I 've come here and I spoke to your predecessor about team working and the team working concept and I told th your predecessor that the steel union was about to takeover our craftsmen and our general workers . |
7 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
8 | However , for $700 a seat for five users it is still very sexy stuff . |
9 | And the villains just listen for it , you walking round and hide in the doorway for five minutes you see far more |
10 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
11 | With a top speed of 90 mph they 're faster than the the old trains and there are many modern refinements . |
12 | BAIRDWEAR has closed its Newton Aycliffe factory with the loss of 95 jobs it was revealed yesterday . |
13 | Of three books on the nervous system G. M. Shepherd 's Neurobiology is called an introduction but since it is a systematic study of 600 pages it is rather more than that for most of us . |
14 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
15 | THE mother of a 16-year-old girl murdered 11 years ago sought a High Court ruling yesterday that would let her bring a civil damages action against two men she alleges were responsible . |
16 | Page 19 WH Smith drops claim : WH Smith has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain . |
17 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
18 | If you are comparing groups or two sets of data from one individual you can use a X 2 test to see if there is a change in attitude . |
19 | And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’ |
20 | to get her car back , you know what they said if she does n't pay that thirty pound within six weeks they 'll pawn it ! |
21 | The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " . |
22 | He flew from London to Sweden at the beginning of December , and at the ceremony on 10 December he was described as " a leader and champion of a new period in the long history of the world 's poetry " . |
23 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
24 | Figure 1 ‘ Managerial hierarchy in fiction and in fact ’ shows the hierarchical structure of part of a department at one company I studied , along with the approximate responsibility time span for each position . |
25 | Ajax Amsterdam coach Louis van Gaal was saved from a demoralising home defeat by two players he has on the transfer list . |
26 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
27 | Ignoring the existence of six servants she organized this breakfast herself . |
28 | With a gallant wave of one hand he invited Melissa to sit down and with the other placed a small pile of well-thumbed paperbacks on a table in front of her . |
29 | In addition it has snow ( I quote Arnie Wilson ) which at its floor level of 2,494 feet it has no right to expect . |
30 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |