Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 2 | Although many areas still recommend that 65 is the upper age limit for basic training for advice work , and 70 is the recommended retirement age , new NACAB membership requirements now allow bureaux the freedom to take a more personal approach to advice workers nearing retirement , allowing them to continue beyond 70 if the management committee and bureau manager agree . |
| 3 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 4 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 5 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 6 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 7 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 8 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 9 | Frankly there just is n't enough original or really exceptional material to tempt me to part with thirty pounds of my hard-earned cash . |
| 10 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 11 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 12 | She wants them to extend to eight feet , well these do n't extend to eight feet , they extend to seven . |
| 13 | ‘ S'posin' I look like one o' the ovver blokes , ’ he went on . |
| 14 | If you genuinely do n't eat any of the foods that we suggest you test in one of the weeks of Stage II , there will be no need for you to follow the instructions for that week . |
| 15 | Mind you erm , I mean that 's not , it 's normal , I expect you to put between six , six ounces and eight ounces . |
| 16 | " We expect you to knock off three stories a day , " I was told-and I 'd give a wry look and a grin of resignation to the film crew . |
| 17 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 18 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 19 | Tickets are valid all day enabling you to alight at one attraction before re-boarding a later bus and heading to another . |
| 20 | seriously by the time yeah , you get a bus out of here , say it 's cancelled you leave at twelve o'clock . |
| 21 | I suggest we start at nine , ’ she told Silvia . |
| 22 | Rough guesses suggest they number round 300,000 and all predictions are that their numbers will increase . |
| 23 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 24 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 25 | He found him chatting with two soldiers , and sharing their bottle of whisky . |
| 26 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 27 | As they grow they merge into one another . |
| 28 | They say they come across thousands of examples of potentially lethal appliances . |
| 29 | ‘ There are , of course , ’ she said severely , ‘ but if you do n't know he went into one or other , would n't it be best to try something more general first ? ’ |
| 30 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |