Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply handling them causes 1 dose to be absorbed through the skin , counting them ( or similarly continuously handling them ) causes 1 dose per Turn to be absorbed . |
| 2 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 3 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 4 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |
| 5 | I got six months to two years borstal , and I was at Bullwood Hall for about nine months . |
| 6 | ‘ The pet shop refused a refund but I got one thanks to DAS , ’ he says . |
| 7 | before I was a gard er was a mo a gardener , and after I 'd three years to the extent I ca n't . |
| 8 | I lifted one foot to the top of the parapet . |
| 9 | I put one ear to the can and held it still . |
| 10 | I put one hand to the back of her neck , then to her shoulder . |
| 11 | I have one other , can I reserve one matter to the end of the meeting because I wish to make a proposal which er would be erm I think ought to be taken erm in closed session because of the nature and confidentiality of the business and personal interests , so perhaps I can propose the closure of the meeting to the press and public at the end of the meeting and defer the final item an item relating to this matter at that time . |
| 12 | if I pay four pence to you . |
| 13 | In cross-examination she agreed that she gave the police a statement and , when asked how many statements she gave , replied , ‘ I gave one statement to the investigating officer … the day after Paulette was murdered . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I gave twenty quid to Oxfam only the other day , ’ said Emma . |
| 15 | Armed with a dozen rolls of film , I put six cameras to the test in the rain-lashed hills of Snowdonia . |
| 16 | Now I discussed three objections to the participatory model last week . |
| 17 | ‘ I did 13 voyages to West Africa and one to South Africa in total . |
| 18 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 19 | I take 10 days to two weeks off . ’ |
| 20 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 21 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 22 | Whether you lived eight men to a room in partitioned huts or ninety men to a cold stone barn , this remoteness of the outside world was the conditioning factor of prison life . |
| 23 | She made 2 complaints to the review panel . |
| 24 | She found 774 citations to theses , out of 25,527 total citations ( 3% ) . |
| 25 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
| 26 | She distinguished three aspects to the gaze : that of the eye of the camera registering the pro-filmic event , that of the spectator viewing the film , and that of the characters on screen looking at each other . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I 've heard Mark say it before , Father , ’ she replied Eleven times to be exact , she added savagely , under her breath . |
| 28 | Because you add fifty percent to the hundred percent and a hundred plus fifty is a hundred and fifty . |
| 29 | You you ti , you tithe of your parsley , and your thyme , and your sage , yo you tithe of these things , when you , when you go and pick ten figs , you give one fig to th to God , you tithe of that but you 've left the weightier things undone . |
| 30 | She tipped one ear to the road , listening to the last of Mitch . |