Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 3 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 4 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 5 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 6 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 7 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 8 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I hate rigid schemes where you pick three colours , ’ she explains . |
| 10 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 11 | You get , or you get two cars of equal speed , along straight |
| 12 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 13 | The words ‘ domestic flight ’ brought a smile and directions to gate 6 , where we found two gentlemen and an X-ray machine . |
| 14 | DAVID Hunt was lobbied by trade unionists yesterday when he visited offices where they claim 1,000 jobs are under threat . |
| 15 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 16 | The south-west London constituency of Richmond and Barnes is one of the top target seats for the Liberal Democrats , where they lie 1,776 votes behind the Conservatives . |
| 17 | Recruits commence as trainee third steward where they spend three months on the job training before being confirmed as third steward . |
| 18 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 19 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 20 | where he drinks nine pints a night . |
| 21 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 22 | Christopher , of Bognor Regis , Sussex , was rushed to hospital , where he spent five days recovering from his ordeal . |
| 23 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 24 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 25 | Mr Taylor was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where he received seven stitches to his nose . |
| 26 | Having become ill in Prestwick , he was admitted to Park Nursing Home , Glasgow , where he died two days later , 5 February 1934 . |
| 27 | He is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm to Alan Wilson and Gary Johnson on Sunday May 9 , after which Mr Whelan was taken to Walton Hospital , where he died six days later . |
| 28 | He was discharged to Elton Hall Nursing Home , Elton , Stockton , where he died eight days later due to acute coronary deficiency . |
| 29 | Sold as a two-year-old at the Doncaster Sales to race in Spain , he won a number of races in that country — where he had seven trainers — before making his mark internationally when winning the Prix du Cadran in France as a four-year-old . |
| 30 | Basson , who owes his unusual first name to a famous Boer army general , had three birdies and a superb eagle 3 at the long tenth , where he finished three feet from the flag with his 7-iron approach shot . |