Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was to play through to 1967–68 , trying his luck in one season ( 1958–59 ) with South Australia , for whom he took 7 for 110 against Peter May 's MCC side without earning Test selection . |
| 2 | This in turn brought him into contact with Owen Jones , the Superintendent of the Exhibition , for whom he wrote two introductions to Jones ' Grammar of Ornament , first published in 1856 . |
| 3 | Wing-half John was forced to retire from professional soccer with a back injury after a distinguished career with Luton , for whom he played 218 games from 1953–1962 , scoring 16 goals , and then Bournemouth . |
| 4 | Having entered the Merchant Navy at the age of fifteen , he had jumped ship into the US Navy and ended in the Royal Navy for whom he played seventeen seasons of rugby . |
| 5 | One of Roche 's most famous clients was the mighty CBS , for whom he undertook four CEO searches in the nine years between 1971 and 1980 . |
| 6 | The residents of these four townships constitute 12 per cent of Wirral 's total population , yet between them they contain 38 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users . |
| 7 | Between them they taught 4.6 million children and employed 206,000 teachers ( 81% female ) . |
| 8 | Between them they commanded 120 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives , but fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to approve any constitutional changes . |
| 9 | Between them they cut thousands of samples each year , binding the edges to stop fraying , applying heat sealed labels with an iron and despatching to destinations all over the country . |
| 10 | In 1835 she teamed up with two other pauper girls , Eliza Johnson and Ann Yerbury , and between them they occupied three tenements belonging to Thomas Edwards on Naish 's Street . |
| 11 | Between them they invited twenty seven guests . |
| 12 | Between them they have 90 years of selling Remembrance Day poppies . |
| 13 | Between them they have seven children . |
| 14 | Between them they involve tens of thousands of volunteers . |
| 15 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 16 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 17 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 18 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 19 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 20 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 21 | The high-jinks of the victorious Yorkshire sides are lively in the telling , and there are laughs aplenty in his recollections of the 1963–64 MCC tour of India , during which he played five of his six Tests . |
| 22 | Miandad extended his 59 to 88 before edging Munton to slip , giving the affable Warwickshire man his first Test wicket in a spell of 10 overs during which he took 1 for 22 , real Angus Fraser stuff . |
| 23 | Thankfully , as he demonstrated at the weekend — during which he claimed 91 points from nine tries and 23 conversions — they happen . |
| 24 | In 1657 in Marlborough she attempted to speak in the church following the service , was attacked , brought before a magistrate , and imprisoned for six weeks , during which she fasted six days . |
| 25 | ‘ There are informal networks through which we let one another know what we are doing and we meet and talk . |
| 26 | He defined the need for special forces in the area : first as troops for post-occupational duties in captured territories ; second , as ‘ small raiding parties of the thug variety , for which we have L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade and the Special Boat Section ’ ; and finally as raiding parties on a larger scale which was the original purpose in retaining the old Middle East Commando . |
| 27 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 28 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 29 | Lot one hundred and seventeen another Bruguier now showing , Lot one hundred and seventeen for which I 've three thousand offered two hundred , five hundred three thousand five hundred three thousand eight hundred , four thousand at four thousand pounds now , any more at four thousand ? |
| 30 | Lot a hundred and twenty two overture snuff box Der Freischutz this one , Lot one two two for which I have one thousand pounds offered , one hundred , two hundred three hundred four hundred one thousand five hundred one thousand six hundred , any more at one thousand six hundred pounds ? |