Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 2 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 3 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 4 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 5 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 6 | And she said , Oh I 'll give them two biscuits each . |
| 7 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 8 | Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division . |
| 9 | A couple of determined tries from Gabriel , a solidly-built scrum-half , put them 10 points clear , before Finnie , with one conversion and three late penalties moved on to a personal total of 17 . |
| 10 | It has time to dissolve minute quantities of minerals which can give it definite characteristics such as hardness or taste . |
| 11 | I 'll have you to a widow in recompense that you should give me thanks for and make you seven years younger , and a rich one . |
| 12 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 13 | Unbeknown to Joan , her husband had contacted Richard with a plea , ‘ Give me three months alone with Joan . |
| 14 | When Central South first showed you these pictures last february , Watkins said that they were going to empty the shaft . |
| 15 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 16 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 17 | Give 'em high-flown names these days . |
| 18 | ‘ Jobs , jobs , President Clinton has offered us 50,000 jobs this summer . ’ |
| 19 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 20 | DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 21 | The first stretch to Castletown takes you past sights such as the smugglers ' hideout at Jackdaw Cave and a treat for birdwatchers at Derby Haven where huge flocks of birds feed in the bay . |
| 22 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 23 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 24 | I 'm giving you two weeks paid leave . |
| 25 | So if he wants a hundred thousand , for every ten thousand it 's one pound fifty seven , it 's going to cost him fifteen pounds seventy , and add two pounds , it 's seventeen seventy . |
| 26 | The United States and Australia have both hosted it 4 times each , while a total of 10 other countries have hosted the Federation Cup either once or twice . |
| 27 | How about Phil Hilborne giving us mere mortals some tips on the twiddly bits in Jimi 's version of Like A Rolling Stone ; it loses me every time . |
| 28 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 29 | Others ask them fatuous questions such as whether beds are comfortable or whether they like their teachers . |
| 30 | Look , you 've asked me these questions several times already . |