Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 2 | Seven or eight years ago we , we , we 're on piecework , we made our own wage . |
| 3 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 4 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 5 | Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born . |
| 6 | His composure would vanish , his grey eyes would shift around the room and , muttering something about antibiotics , he would disappear to the other end of the room , where some hours later he would be discovered at some local worthy 's side , discussing parking problems at Waitrose with the quiet authority of a great physician . |
| 7 | So we 're not saying it 's a question of conscious unconscious , or rigid demarcation where we are actually talking about subtle gradations of consciousness , from complete self conscious awareness at one end , to total loss of all memory of the thing at , at , at the other . |
| 8 | Because I feel any attachment to this city or this world where I have laboured ? |
| 9 | He ran his own small business , but then about five or six years ago it all started to go wrong . |
| 10 | A lot of that was also due to the fact that we just did n't get into it , because of all the stuff got stolen after we 'd started and there was a big break of about five or six weeks when we could n't do anything . |
| 11 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 12 | The major task is now to remove the aircraft wreckage from the accident site to a hangar or similar place where it will , if necessary , be possible to lay out or even reconstruct the aircraft on a base framework . |
| 13 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 14 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 15 | Only two or three hours earlier they had drunk tea from the same cup . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 'm left there shivering about two or three hours then I 'm taken upstairs and interrogated by these three very heavy-looking military guys . |
| 17 | But erm The television of course i is infernally clever , I mean th there 's er no doubt that the microchips that erm takes away the erm the teletext information , stores it and then spits up whatever you ask for is er two or three P now I suppose and therefore the , the television manufacturer charges hundred pounds to put it in . |
| 18 | And I 'm going to point out two or three things why it 's absolutely essential that you tell everything over the phone . |
| 19 | Two or three seasons ago it concentrated on excerpts ( including at least two showings a season of the dreaded encounter between Hawick v Gala ) . |
| 20 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 21 | We have protected pensioners and other pass users for at least the last two or three years when we have been under considerable pressure to abandon free travel . |
| 22 | I just think two or three years ago they took a |
| 23 | And yet two or three years ago it used to stop up there . |
| 24 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 25 | Tom West , head of Data General 's Advanced Systems Development Group claims that DG 's lonely advocacy of the 88000 RISC ‘ is not a problem — two or three years ago I was more worried about the decision than I am now ’ . |
| 26 | Cos if it 's two or three miles away it 's gon na be a bit of a problem . |
| 27 | If we get two or three places then we can choose the best one . |
| 28 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 29 | You ca n't put date on erm , two weeks later or three weeks later it gets out can we just stick with a month |
| 30 | Since cultures tend to go sour after about two or three weeks when they are best thrown out , it is best to start a new culture every ten days or so . |