Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it .
2 He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst .
3 These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater .
4 The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties .
5 It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode .
6 Now pressing Stephen Hendry for his No 1 world ranking , he believes he has reached his peak , declaring : ‘ The penny has finally dropped .
7 Er so er I mean they 're going to show you the seven year figure , maybe do n't show you the ten year figure , because they do n't look too good over ten years .
8 Er so er I mean they 're going to show you the seven year figure , maybe do n't show you the ten year figure , because they do n't look too good over ten years .
9 If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches .
10 And they 'll give you a one year warrantee .
11 Tell your family and friends about York 's great service , and when we receive their first order , we 'll send you a 24 exposure York film absolutely FREE .
12 ‘ You find you a 40 gallon drum , chop the top out with a hammer and cold chisel , turn it over and make four big holes with the pointed end of a pickaxe .
13 When you think of the work that the old grocer used to have to do you know , make you a three corner bag out of a bit of paper , to put a pennyworth of pepper in .
14 ‘ Just give me a one way ticket to Gloucester before I break your fat necK ! ’
15 Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish .
16 Give me a three letter word for a .
17 Dallas seemed to have the game in their hands after Aikman 's two five-yard touchdown passes to Jay Novacek earned them a 17-7 half-time lead .
18 I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all
19 When Len sent them a five pound order , or ten pound
20 they gave them a three year trial period , to see how attractive they could make the service .
21 After showing the boy how it was done , he 'd offer him the two iron rods — the hot ends towards him .
22 Sophie 's angelic looks had won her the 1992 Miss Pears title in the face of 20,000 challengers .
23 By an order dated 5 August 1991 Waite J. granted the foster mother leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of the local authority to remove from placement with her the four children D. , born on 5 June 1978 , T. , born on 2 January 1980 , A. , born on 23 April 1981 , and K. , born on 21 November 1982 , who were in the care of the local authority .
24 He brought with him a thirty page document proposing a military take-over of the country .
25 ( Peter should have remembered because Howley sent him a six word telegram before his own big day .
26 Jean the whole point about it is I gave him I , I gave him a thousand pound worth of work and one fella , a young fella ah Raymond look at that , and he gives him twenty off the drink for a year and after the year
27 Winnie held him a five pound note .
28 Seth 's new career earned him a fifty-thousand dollar advance for the paperback edition , and a European version was in the works .
29 They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack .
30 Culley gave him a ten dollar bill .
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