Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cairns had taken 6 for 70 in the Lancashire first innings , and after watching him add 5 for 75 against Kent Robinson commented : ‘ He is still a youngster but he is setting in well and showing what an excellent prospect he is . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , at the time of writing it has seven out of the 15 titles on The Bookseller 's bestsellers list . |
| 3 | ( This is another way of saying you have three lives . ) |
| 4 | Oh well Derek , there 's a chance still mate , if we can stop them pegging but I think the chances of stopping them pegging three is a bit remote ! |
| 5 | For this reason , the Presentation attainment target stops at level 7 ( the level that should be achieved by the average 16 year old ) because there is no way of extending it to level 10 , other than by specifying lists of increasingly irregular and unusual words — which would be absurd . |
| 6 | Some examiners conclude the statement of facts in a problem with the direction to discuss it : others adopt the mannerism of requesting you to advise one of the parties . |
| 7 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 8 | The commission on records is between 15 and 20 per cent , while on publishing I got 15 per cent until Mark Knopfler voluntarily put it up to 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 10 | Would n't it be lovely , then , to be able to tell your PC that you want to run a CD ROM based game , and would it please re-configure itself to do the best job , preferably without making you wait five minutes while it re-boots ? |
| 11 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 12 | This finding was relatable to Stage I regulations which attempted to encourage students to broaden their educational horizons by requiring them to take 12 modules , but to pass only 10 . |
| 13 | The activity can be taken further by asking them to represent three key moments in a story line ( either one they have heard or one they have themselves developed through drama ) . |
| 14 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |