Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah I mean I 'm saying two a day , but erm if you can get three a day , I 'd prefer it because |
| 2 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 3 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 4 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 5 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 6 | Lead-free petrol is bad for your car 's health , according to motor mechanics who say they 're repairing dozens of cars which have been damaged by it . |
| 7 | Somerset police investigating the death say they are questioning two men . |
| 8 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 9 | ( WES ) But those who 've worked with conductive education say it 's helped hundreds of families , and that the research on which the report is based is flawed . |
| 10 | They say it 's failing millions of people living in severe hardship . |
| 11 | In the sixth century AD they fortified what was to become one of the most symbolic sites in national rather than regional history . |
| 12 | I just noticed I was reading one of these er incidentally I mentioned about British Gas er this is the one that they give all their . |
| 13 | Imagine you are parting two walls . |
| 14 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 15 | Jim Lumb , who looks like John Cleese , says they 're having 18 ; William Hague says it 's 20 . |
| 16 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 17 | Based on we can do they were doing sixty five palette loads a day . |
| 18 | The man who was injured says he 's lost thousands of pounds and has n't worked since . |
| 19 | Mr Miah says he 's spent four thousand pounds revamping his restaurant . |
| 20 | DG claims significant demand for its top-end 4 and 8-way Motorola 88100 servers , and says it is selling one of its CLARiiON RAID disc storage sub-systems with just about every 8-way machine that goes out the door . |
| 21 | Tests show he 's carrying ten times the acceptable level of mercury . |
| 22 | I mean you 're taking five percent of your money when you first go into the fund , and , and that 's an exceptional er amount of money that you wo n't get back , but if i if they 're saying well we 'll invest the whole lot for you , but you 've got to keep with us , w then y you 've got the option . |
| 23 | Lot number sixty three Lot sixty three Lot number sixty three , the showing for a hundred and fifty pounds , at sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred is offered I 'm bid two hundred , to anybody else at two hundred ? |
| 24 | Er Lot number ninety two Lot number ninety two is the seal Lot number ninety two for thirty pounds , at thirty , thirty five , at thirty five pounds in white , thirty five only , forty , forty five fifty pounds , at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy I 'm offered I 'm offered seventy pounds on my right , seventy five eighty pounds eighty five ninety ninety five a hundred and ten twenty thirty forty one forty bid against you now one forty is here at one forty , all done ? |
| 25 | Lot number one one seven Lot number one one seven is the next to offer celadon jade er pendant another jade pendant for fifty pounds , at fifty , fifty five pounds at fifty five pounds , any more at fifty five pounds only , at fifty five , sixty sixty five seventy I 'm offered I 'm offered seventy to my left and I shall take seventy pounds , any more at seventy ? ? |
| 26 | Lot number ninety six Lot number ninety six there we are , we 've got this showing here now Lot number ninety six at eighty pounds , at eighty , eighty five , ninety , ninety five is offered I 'm offered ninety five , anybody round it off for me ? |
| 27 | Neither his nor our transponders were being received , so the controller quite correctly told us to expedite a climb to FL090 , ‘ confirm you are leaving 80 ’ . |
| 28 | You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures . |
| 29 | The extent of the problem is almost impossible to estimate , but Informix reckons it is losing millions of pounds in unpaid licence fees at present , and could be losing tens of millions by 1995 . |
| 30 | ‘ I can remember it being done 15 years ago at Hodder & Stoughton . ’ |