Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 2 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 3 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 4 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 5 | During the six months I spent there I realised how important it was to adapt quickly . |
| 6 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 7 | I WRITE in appreciation of Broadgreen Hospital for the wonderful attention and care accorded to me from all the staff during the five days I spent there . |
| 8 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 9 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 10 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 11 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 12 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 13 | During the seven years I was at McKinsey , I never saw a client that seemed to care so much about its people . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
| 15 | During the three weeks I used the machine I had no cause to doubt this . |
| 16 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 17 | Between the two visits I preferred the Kent trip because of visiting London but I also enjoyed going to Scarborough because of some of the places . |
| 18 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 19 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 20 | Junior scrabble for Sarah and er I do n't know about the two boys I do n't what we 've got sorted out for the boys . |
| 21 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 22 | One hurricane was much the same as another to me after the two weeks I 'd just had , and I slept right through it . |
| 23 | After the two weeks I spent at Soundback Studios in Ipswich I was sorry to leave . |
| 24 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 25 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 26 | Eight of the twelve Members I interviewed made no complaint of bias towards the front-benches ( or vice-versa ! ) , or felt that the balance had been well struck , but four expressed reservations . |
| 27 | Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies . |
| 28 | At £299 , the Microfilm fx is the dearest of the four modems I looked at . |
| 29 | Of the four issues I have been listening to , which could hardly be more different from one another in approach , none is without distinction , none without its own appeal . |
| 30 | The ships themselves offer a more comfortable ride these days : of the 16 trips I made in blustery March , only one was anything like rough . |