Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the speed builds through 200 knots I feel the increased pitch sensitivity , my bottom lifting from the parachute pack as I press the twin pitots on this tiny nose further towards the gleaming layer of snowy stratocumulus below . |
| 2 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 3 | Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials ! |
| 4 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 5 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 6 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 7 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 8 | We have looked at two reasons you might have for recording student performance : |
| 9 | As he groggily came round he found himself surrounded by three youths he thought were trying to help him . |
| 10 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |
| 11 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 12 | He says in 20 years he 's not known a similar accident . |
| 13 | Now see I 'm looking at this here , right , just for fitting in twelve games I mean , I 'm gon na have to start the first of May . |
| 14 | Erm but of course if you die within seven years it could indeed be added back into your estate so I think that they also build a certain amount of life insurance against that and essentially what you do is you you One of the schemes is you pay insurance against the amount of the tax bill seven years . |
| 15 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 16 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 17 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 18 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 19 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 20 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |
| 21 | Turning after 50 feet I saw my wife was sitting in the snow and weeping . |
| 22 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 23 | We we we finish in five minutes I feel that |
| 24 | a group of parcels going in two loads it 's two |
| 25 | But because some intrauterine deaths will always occur before 42 weeks it might seem sensible to deliver all babies at 42 , 41 , or even 40 weeks . |
| 26 | Would you turn back one page please , and look at Two pages I beg your pardon . |
| 27 | Over two hours , this can be wearing for two minutes it 's fine . |
| 28 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 29 | Like her mum , she 's sent off for a cat catalogue , she got it , you know within thirteen days I think it was . |
| 30 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |