Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
2 | I eventually bought an MX-5 with hard-top , limited slip diff , air conditioning and option package A for £8000 , some £6000 less than a tax-free UK-supplied car of the same specification . |
3 | I broke my leg in training and I only played a dozen games undefeated , mind you ! |
4 | I mean I only paid a hundred and sixty pound a month but I mean |
5 | I only wanted the four rock and roll ones . |
6 | I especially liked the two stage , visual and audio , too fast ascent warnings . |
7 | That was when I just had the one fellow . |
8 | I just ordered a forty one and a forty six |
9 | I finally chose a 900 × 380 × 300mm tank from the Marina Range of Tahiti Aquariums , a high-quality heave gauge all glass aquarium with some well thought out design features . |
10 | I once asked a 14 year old who had the word SKIN tattooed across his forehead what he 'd do if he ever lost the faith : — ‘ Cut me 'ead off ’ , he said grinning , ‘ Or maybe grow a fringe ’ . |
11 | Every day on Chelalo Haig-Thomas or I saw nyala , usually in small parties of cows and immature males ; I once counted a dozen together . |
12 | I once got a hundred and forty five , I once got a hundred and forty five with four strikes . |
13 | I once got a hundred and forty five , I once got a hundred and forty five with four strikes . |
14 | ‘ I always walked the seven miles home , but that day the Old Man and Peter Revers came past in the car and offered me a lift . |
15 | But on the plus side , I always thought the 1985 picture of Elvis Costello , Agnes Bernelle and myself sitting in a bar in Camden was quite charming . |
16 | My ex and I still met every six months or so , I do n't know why . |
17 | I also saw the three bodies downstairs in pathology . |
18 | Sitting in the other studio but actually it 's Carl in there now and it 's it 's not Dennis in there at all and er how on earth I almost confused the two I do n't know . |
19 | My mate was over seventy , so I could n't let him lift a horse 's foot after ‘ knocking-off ’ time : I actually shoed the two horses . |
20 | I never saw the two of them in conversation . |
21 | Further east , in the Luberon , in a small family restaurant I recently had a dozen delicious snails a la . |
22 | Everybody even though you only had the one room downstairs , I remember when my brother died he w at twelve although there was a big crowd of us in that house there was er no there was n't then there was er the four sisters was n't there ? |
23 | ‘ You only had the four sets . |
24 | Well if you did i if you only did the two nights you 'd be co and the sailing is on |
25 | Then one evening after Pack Meeting , when she was folding up her uniform to put it away , she suddenly noticed the Six emblem on it . |
26 | She thoughtfully left the two letters on his desk , where his older brother discovered them . |
27 | She only had the one dress , and a cloak , both worn and thin . |
28 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
29 | mother and she only had the one daughter and the daughter got married and oh she had about oh ten or eleven children and they 're all running round in this back yard |
30 | No , she only had the three children , erm Asthana was n't born . |