Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit . |
| 3 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
| 4 | Here all up here , here in my arms I mean I had seven week physiotherapy on this arm , it 's |
| 5 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 6 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 7 | Since then I I 've like say I missed ten Fridays yeah ? |
| 8 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know she had two brothers . |
| 10 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 11 | Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm . |
| 12 | As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 13 | Well say you spent fifty quid on booze |
| 14 | So how come you had nine pound last week ? |
| 15 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 16 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 17 | Police say they recorded 170 motorists driving through red traffic lights in York in just one month . |
| 18 | I did n't know he got two James Bond |
| 19 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 20 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 21 | But he knew that for his expansion plans to work he needed two things : further capital investment , and a designer of genius . |
| 22 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 23 | They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’ |
| 24 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 25 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 26 | Melanie Simmonite says she started 20 years ago … her husband did it so it was a case of you ca n't beat them join them … |
| 27 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 28 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
| 29 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |