Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you want to see me in four weeks ? |
| 2 | But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ? |
| 3 | Now I want to see you in four weeks again . |
| 4 | How many wonem women would you need to do it in six hours ? |
| 5 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 6 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 8 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 9 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 10 | Valley Canoe Products have located a source of indestructible deck elastics and hope to offer them in 6 and 8mm sizes . |
| 11 | It 's interest-free , so I 'd expect to get it in eleven months and twenty-nine days from giving notice . ’ |
| 12 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
| 13 | you 've got to do it in four minutes |
| 14 | Got to keep you in one piece , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | Are you still going to love her in ten , or twenty , years ’ time ? ’ |
| 16 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 17 | I 've the head of the Board of Tourism coming to see me in five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time . |
| 19 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 20 | He carried an axe in order to be able to smash down illegal obstacles , but there is no mention of him having to use it in 1983 . |
| 21 | Having been knocked out of the Tennents Scottish Cup by the Rugby Park side and after failing to beat them in three previous league meetings , there was a distinct edge to Raith 's play on Saturday . |
| 22 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 23 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 24 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 25 | Anyway , this somebody must of given her the idea , I think it was our local doctor oh you 'll be alright you know , you have to have to have them in forty eight hours you see so |
| 26 | It has several aspects , including : ( a ) the range of options offered to the teacher is crucial in fitting the program to his style and enabling him to contribute effectively , but too many will be confusing ( b ) the designer may see a whole range of possible extensions to the teaching possibilities of the program : the lengthy development process of all good teaching units makes such extensions attractive but trying to include them in one program will tend to make it difficult to ‘ see through ’ and to use ( c ) the desire for compatibility with different hardware configurations often inspires programming constraints that can be severe ; conversely , programs that fully exploit the facilities of a particular microcomputer are likely to be difficult to transfer . |
| 27 | ‘ Why are you trying to split us in two ? |
| 28 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 29 | We have had remarkably good figures over the past year and we are determined to beat them in 1992 . |
| 30 | I do n't yet know what their comments will be and I ‘ m not trying to influence them in one direction or another . |