Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This nothing had two functions at least : assassin and whore .
2 This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed .
3 The new kit will come in well above ICL 's existing high-end , the eight-way DRS6000 700 which supports 500 users .
4 The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives .
5 Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle .
6 The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) .
7 After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors .
8 Erm this one has four dimensions .
9 Walker 's study of students at the University of Warwick is concerned with all mature students , however within this he distinguishes two groups , one in which the students did meet the university 's General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) and the second in which they did not ( Walker 1975 ) .
10 Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) .
11 According to a report on Radio Afghanistan on Dec. 30 he received 916 votes and there were 59 votes against .
12 In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation .
13 In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University .
14 I had six I had five advertisers go in .
15 Okay well you put three times twelve that 's what you were going to say so , if Claire puts six times six you put three times twelve and I 'll put four times nine just to be awkward .
16 Doreen is a great-grandmother in her late 70s who looks 20 years younger .
17 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on .
18 The promotion was in fact a joint one involving 100 titles from both presses .
19 If they get one customer they get ten pounds but if they 're unlucky enough to get thirteen they get ten pounds .
20 He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments .
21 In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London .
22 Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that .
23 This was put right in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII who left ten days out of the year .
24 There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven .
25 You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so
26 But that includes three I think three disks were full of erm
27 At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon .
28 With this tool you cut a small 3 inch diameter plug , or a large one measuring 8 inches or more .
29 ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’
30 By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 .
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