Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 2 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 3 | I mean one person in particular , who is very good and always does the work , but I feel is probably — ok , she babies people too much , she does everything for them , rather than allow them to do it themselves . |
| 4 | I mean fifteen hours in in a week is not much at all when you consider how much you 're expected to do for a degree |
| 5 | As a matter of fact , there was about , I got four month in this one particular shop and there became sixteen men , in this shop , that was working for me and er er we , I instituted a bonus scheme . |
| 6 | I got two Helens in the group . |
| 7 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 8 | Reviewers would put ‘ When I first heard the name I expected four guys in Factory haircuts ’ . |
| 9 | There was one time when I moved 14 times in seven months — that really disrupts your education . |
| 10 | So I pa , I told one girl in the choir what had happened , and I think to begin |
| 11 | It 's just as well — I cut two holes in it for the ears ! |
| 12 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 13 | I put four teabags in there fill it up with boiling water right ? |
| 14 | oh yeah , I put seven quid in |
| 15 | I put ten pence in the other day |
| 16 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 17 | Suppose I walk five steps in a direction unc east of north . |
| 18 | ‘ I scored 20 goals in each of the last three seasons , but teams like Wimbledon ca n't afford to just go out and replace their top scorer at the drop of a hat . |
| 19 | ‘ I scored 24 goals in my first season with Portsmouth , 20 in my second , but only 13 last year , ’ explained Whittingham , 28 , himself a former physical training instructor as an Army corporal . |
| 20 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 21 | Later on , as a consultant at the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital , I organized two trials in rheumatoid arthritis at the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases . |
| 22 | I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing . |
| 23 | I jammed one finger in my ear against the fourth circle of hell that had just broken loose . |
| 24 | To make the roses I arranged five petals in an overlapping circle , placed three petals on top of them and then finally positioned the rose centre in the middle . |
| 25 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 26 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 27 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 28 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 29 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |