Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eleven year old girl has witnessed her two brothers , who were Roman Catholics , being shot dead in their home by terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | unc The last exercise has taught you three things : |
| 3 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 4 | Colonel Jensen has given us one case of fossils and promises us more . |
| 5 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 6 | The search for a new chief , to be led by Akers and managed by IBM 's board nominating and executive compensation committee , which is chaired by James Burke , a former chairman of Johnson & Johnson , will be conducted both within and outside the company , and IBM has given itself 90 days to complete the process . |
| 7 | Scuba World in its magnanimity has given you five chances to get it right . |
| 8 | So far only the local city authority has nominated its three members and the identity of the new President is still a matter of speculation : after ten years of Socialist rule the Christian Democrats feel it is their turn to be represented , but so far no suitable candidate has emerged . |
| 9 | Romania 's inability to provide quick ball and their fumbling loss of possession often allowed the Scots to counter-attack from deep positions with the same instinctive fluency that has earned them 130 points in four games at Murrayfield this year . |
| 10 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 11 | The British Medical Journal ( June '90 ) reports that Miss Pauline Bousquet , an Obstetrician who supports natural childbirth at St. Thomas ' Hospital , London has won her 11 year battle to clear her name on charges of professional incompetence brought by male colleagues . |
| 12 | Kewill Systems Plc has decided its 1991 acquisition of still loss-making Weigang MCS GmbH of Stuttgart was a mistake , and is to sell the manufacturing software company to Seitz Industrie Lsungen GmbH . |
| 13 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 14 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has made its 1993 Budget representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 15 | Fuzzy Logic has made it two wins out of two … |
| 16 | ‘ Jobs , jobs , President Clinton has offered us 50,000 jobs this summer . ’ |
| 17 | So let's say this client has got his thirty pounds a month Covermaster , er , and he 's decided that he wants to invest his Covermaster in a Japan fund . |
| 18 | AUTO Security holdings has sold its 26 p.c. stake in Scantronic , the electronics company . |
| 19 | FRENCH socialist millionaire Bernard Tapie has sold his 1.6 p.c. stake in Societe Television Franaise and has resigned as managing director of Bernard Tapie Communication . |
| 20 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 21 | Richard Daniels ( 42 ) , has called his 23 poem collection of verse , If Milton Could Do It — So Can I. He wrote the book on a computer at a community resource centre in Kingsteignton , Devon , where it will be launched tomorrow . |
| 22 | He married hometown girl Vera in 1971 and she has borne him five children , including twins . |
| 23 | The Arts Council has updated its 1993 mailing and press contacts lists . |
| 24 | A prodigious runner , Mehew 's pace and fitness give Rovers the appearance of playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 at the same time and his willingness to get into the penalty area has brought him four goals already this season . |
| 25 | At present , his forthright batting has brought him 4690 Test runs , at the creditable average of 30.26 , with seven centuries . |
| 26 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 27 | So the the whole operation has cost us fifteen pounds . |
| 28 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 29 | AIRLINE tycoon Richard Branson has asked his 3,000 staff to share jobs or take unpaid leave . |
| 30 | Vic has eaten his two slices of toast and is on his third cup of tea and first cigarette of the day when Marjorie shuffles into the kitchen in her dressing-gown and slippers , a scarf over her curlers , her pale round face puffy with sleep . |