Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] five [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
2 | But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously . |
3 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
4 | And she 'd got five wolf whistles . |
5 | By morning she had lost five pounds , there was no right pelvic pain or ovarian swelling , and she felt much better generally . |
6 | Oh she had to buy five presents and she only had two kids . |
7 | She had allowed five minutes for him to get back ahead of her — she 'd no desire to go trailing in his arrogant footsteps ! |
8 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
9 | She had to cover five areas : expedition , residential , physical recreation , service and skills . |
10 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
11 | When you had pulled five handles there was an article produced . |
12 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
13 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
14 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
15 | For some reason which escapes me we had to take a taxi , and when we arrived at Helsinki airport we had to wait five hours for our flight . |
16 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
17 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
18 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
19 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
20 | They decided to put five pounds a week into a fund from their dole giros . |
21 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
22 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
23 | So , apart from building tennis and squash courts , he managed to fit five holes of golf into a part of the school grounds and encouraged the boys to have a go . |
24 | At university , he had to do five subjects . |
25 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |
26 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
27 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
28 | He had played five shots to Stevie 's three . |
29 | He had played five Tests on the 1984–5 tour of India without any marked success , leaving the impression that he was not quite up to Test standard . |
30 | Roberts told the police that he had drunk five cans of beer . |