Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous . |
| 2 | You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude . |
| 3 | These can be displayed , cleared or have the four basic operations performed on them allowing eleven different sums to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 4 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 5 | I read five walking/climbing magazines each month , but Outdoor Action was the only one to give details . |
| 6 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 7 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 8 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 9 | I mean one little boy came in , and he said , What 's that sword doing on the table ? |
| 10 | I fear 200 working men are drowned in the Clyde . ’ |
| 11 | Justice demands that I stress one important point . |
| 12 | As an undergraduate myself in the late sixties , I met two famous pioneer sisters , the Misses Deneke . |
| 13 | As I walked along the road that skirts the southern shore of Loch Leven , I met two fair ones , a Minna and a Brenda , walking leisurely , having as companion a jackdaw . |
| 14 | During five weeks in Greece I met four other walkers , all British , two of them women . |
| 15 | Later , I met three teenage lads from Blackburn : Colin , Neil and Stephen . |
| 16 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 17 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 18 | Walking from the café and the food shops , I passed two ostentatious jewellers . |
| 19 | It was a lot if I got one jokey line from him on the back of a postcard . |
| 20 | I got two other evenings to do at school now . |
| 21 | I got two black ones ! |
| 22 | I got two big plastic |
| 23 | I got two kit-kat things . |
| 24 | I got three new ones yesterday . |
| 25 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 26 | I ca n't really answer how I got into it , me , I got three big brothers so , maybe that 's got part to do with it . |
| 27 | I tried four different combos , three power amps and DI'ed straight into a mixer through studio reference speakers , a pair of cheapo ghetto blasters and some ordinary domestic hi-fi speakers . |
| 28 | Changing over to channel two , I tried three different guitars and yet found great difficulty finding anything there that I liked . |
| 29 | I found fourteen wounded men waiting the doctor 's care in the gun-room , which was almost a pool of blood . |
| 30 | ‘ I found fourteen matching characteristics in the ridge patterns of his fingerprints . |