Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellwood 's technique was to let them stay about five vehicles ahead , but now and then he 'd drop back and let them fall out of sight . |
| 2 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 3 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 4 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 5 | If , however , any individual member wishes to remain on the distribution list please let me know within two weeks by telephoning Wendy Sinnet on extension 3046 . |
| 6 | I would be grateful if you could let me know within six weeks whether your councillors wish to attend such an evening and if so how many representatives you will wish to send . |
| 7 | Erm , try it , and let me know in six months . |
| 8 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 9 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |
| 10 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 11 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 12 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 13 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 14 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 15 | You know , our policies are working , I mean after thirteen years |
| 16 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 17 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 18 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
| 19 | I levelled at 800 feet and transmitted again : ‘ Pilot in the water , helicopter listing port ’ . |
| 20 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 21 | While waiting some of us were given a quick look behind the scenes , and then to my surprise I bumped into three members of the Gwili Railway , on a trip to collect some railway hardware . |
| 22 | As I untangled the fishing tackle , I found over three feet of wire line , two hooks and five weights . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’ |
| 24 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 25 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 26 | It 's up to thee months , I say after three months no good taking anything at all because you 'd never lose it , not after three months . |
| 27 | ‘ At night I hunt on four feet , ’ was the boy 's surprising reply . |
| 28 | I stopped about two metres down from the summit and quietly cocked the gun , inspecting the composite steel and nylon pellet before placing it in the chamber and snicking the gun closed . |
| 29 | I stopped about twenty yards away from the shed , appalled at the scene of utter desolation and neglect . |
| 30 | The clock failed to ring , but , inexplicably , I woke with thirty seconds of 1974 left . |