Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lot number one three three one three three is the sword rack there 's the sword rack showing for two hundred pounds at two hun two twenty , two forty , two sixty , two eighty , three hundred bid I 'm offered three hundred pounds and ta I shall take it at three hundred pounds , anybody else ? |
| 2 | This creative work of art was produced by May Bolton , a member of the Hems Knitting Club , , to celebrate the 100th meeting of their club which was started nine years ago . |
| 3 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 4 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 5 | As a result we are given one of the most blatant examples of a blonde floozie being added to a film purely for box-office considerations . |
| 6 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 7 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 8 | Kapwepwe and 123 supporters were detained , although Kapwepwe himself was released ten months later . |
| 9 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 10 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that the snail can only perceive events which are more than one quarter of a second apart , so a stick which is moved four times a second appears to be stationary . |
| 12 | The Maths Department assists in an S1 and S2 Computer Familiarisation course which is allocated one period per week . |
| 13 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 14 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 15 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 16 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 17 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 18 | When we got to University of East Anglia we were set seven tasks . |
| 19 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 20 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 21 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 22 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 23 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 24 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 25 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 26 | In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain . |
| 27 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 28 | Lot number fifty five , Lot number fifty five the hanging lamp there 's the hanging lamp showing for a hundred and fifty pounds at a hundred and fifty , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty standing I 'm offered two hundred and twenty pounds , I 'll take two twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty three hundred three , going on ? |
| 29 | At fif sixty , thank you , standing , for sixty , sixty five seventy pounds , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety standing I 'm offered ninety pounds at the back standing , at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , you all finished , at ninety pounds . |
| 30 | Seventy , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety at the back I 'm offered ninety pounds , I shall sell at ninety , it 's yours sir at ninety pounds ninety pounds , gentleman left back and that 's for eight five three . |