Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 2 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 3 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 4 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 5 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 6 | What we 'd like you to do and to consider , and I 'll come on to replacement soon , is to consider supplementing it with one of these types of locks . |
| 7 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 8 | Based at Domodeovo , Moscow 's main internal airport , Air Russia will buy or lease brand new Boeing 767s and hopes to start flying them by 1994 . |
| 9 | ‘ I often have rounds where I keep knocking it to 15 feet and then miss the putts . |
| 10 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 11 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 12 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |
| 13 | Manufacturers of the three fungicides voluntarily instructed US farmers in October to stop using them on 70 out of 83 approved crops . |
| 14 | Timothy Jack Robson , 28 , a friend from schooldays who is also deaf , has denied murdering her on 28 June 1988 . |
| 15 | The girl continued shooting him for ten , maybe fifteen seconds . |
| 16 | He eventually suggested sending her to one of the wards and said that he would sort things out from there . |
| 17 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 18 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |