Example sentences of "[verb] we [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 's kept us on file and will give us the first date available in June . |
| 2 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 3 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 4 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 5 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 6 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 7 | ‘ It gave us a second pop at Morley Street , and he was stopping , ’ said Elsworth . |
| 8 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 9 | This gives us a second combination of interest and income ( 10% and £40m. ) which must also be on the IS curve . |
| 10 | Plotting OU 1 against OY 1 on graph ( iv ) gives us a second point on the unemployment-income curve ( point B ) . |
| 11 | But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout . |
| 12 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 13 | Or maybe , seeing us the second time , he might have suspected . |
| 14 | Announcing this programme , the then Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , said dramatically , ‘ Our nuclear pioneers have now given us a second chance — to lead another industrial revolution in the second half of the twentieth century . ' |