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

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1 In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches .
2 Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality .
3 ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’
4 ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time .
5 MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 .
6 Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld .
7 In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then .
8 On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door .
9 I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six
10 From these authorities I collect two things .
11 Right , at present I have fifteen speakers , plus the two seconders who have reserved the , their right .
12 Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup .
13 During the pilot study I saw 160 patients ; only four chose to see a doctor in preference to the ENP .
14 ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added .
15 It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only !
16 By the end of the summer term I weighed six stone one pound .
17 At the beginning of the O-level summer term I weighed eight stone three pounds and , if I was pleased at having lost two pounds , I certainly did n't say so .
18 Erm we pay our church organist I think twelve pounds a year .
19 To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour .
20 He also found two more lumps in my groin and immediately booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital for the biopsy I had five days ago .
21 Mummy I got two bears .
22 ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened .
23 This is the most common clause and will attach to all vessels with a maximum design speed which exceeds 17 knots ( 20 mph ) whether they are called Speedboats or not .
24 When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that .
25 Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly .
26 Ulster fielded four new caps , but were not overawed by a Saltire side which included six internationalists .
27 For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton .
28 In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance .
29 In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments .
30 at Mansfield which had two stations then , Great Central and the old London , Midland , Scottish , which was one of my delights anyway , engines were , er they were to me .
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