Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [num] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 2 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 3 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 4 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 5 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 6 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 7 | ‘ If you are really dropping people anywhere along that coast I would n't give them forty-eight hours before they are signing a statement for the public prosecutor . |
| 8 | I 'll give you two oranges if you let me take your photo . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll give you twenty pounds if you lose twenty six pounds and that |
| 10 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 11 | I 'll give it three years before it starts going downhill again |
| 12 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 13 | If the answer is no , then you need to think about how you could improve that piece of work , somebody is speaking now it 's bad enough you owe me ten minutes if it 's not the best piece of work you 've ever done , why is n't it ? |
| 14 | Mrs Ware telephoned me five weeks after her husband died saying that she felt her children should be taken into care and she should be hospitalized because she could no longer cope . |
| 15 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 16 | Right , well this is part three in that series , and I would like you to do one of , I 'd like you two things while you 're watching it . |
| 17 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 18 | Recently I 've heard that there have been advertisements on the television and people say the doctors give you 50 rupees if you go for the sterilisation operation . |
| 19 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 20 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 21 | The weasel charges us fifteen dollars for a five dollar trip . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ my father said , ‘ I shall go and take you two girls if you are fit to be seen , and it wo n't do your mother any harm either . ’ |
| 23 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 24 | She spent the remainder of the week drifting aimlessly from room to room in the house , until her father irritably asked her one evening whether she had nothing better to do . |
| 25 | Valiant had a near miss at intercepting her one day as she homed into the Thames after a channel crossing but lost her on a chase up the Medway in which they stood no chance with the power boat 's superior speed . |
| 26 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 28 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 29 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 30 | ‘ He sent me 26 roses when it was my birthday and I sent him 48 naked sailors . ’ |