Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their exam is more or less G C S E for eleven year olds you know |
| 2 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 3 | Now after seven years separation I have come to see my family . |
| 4 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
| 5 | In 10 of 12 surveillance studies it is possible to calculate the number of colonoscopies performed and the number of early cancers detected by them . |
| 6 | Okay , let me just remind you of that competition question we 're running at the moment er , the first of three video competitions we have this evening . |
| 7 | Ah so we will see See at the end of three months treatment they 'll s They wo n't look enormously different . |
| 8 | Many other provisions of 1977 Geneva Protocol I might seem highly relevant to the question of nuclear weapons use , but there is a difficulty . |
| 9 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled . |
| 10 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 11 | Computer staff at the Royal Bank of Scotland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a series of one day strikes.If they decide to take industrial action it will result in the shutdown of the Bank 's computer system and the closure of their Cashline network . |
| 12 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 13 | I mean if they 're just sort of four foot things I mean it 's not you know I think . |
| 14 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 15 | Otto turned out to have measureless charm and the most courteous manner , and in slow , correct English told us of how he had perfected his tactics in Baltic exercises before the war , how he had put them into practice in the Atlantic , and how , on the night after his capture , he had played bridge in the day-cabin of Captain Macintyre with one of the ship 's lieutenants and the captains of two merchant ships he had sunk , and then slept ( for Captain Macintyre was in his sea-cabin ) in Captain Macintyre 's bunk . |
| 16 | They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out . |
| 17 | With one fluid movement she reached down on the bed and picked up her T-shirt , putting it on . |
| 18 | Durham will meet up again with two Essex players they saw on tour seamer Don Topley , who was the Zimbabwe coach , and off-spinner Peter Such , who was the professional at Bulawayo . |
| 19 | Other things , John would see and ask , ‘ Can I afford to buy that ? ’ — as when he fell in love with two leather suitcases he saw in a Munich shop window . |
| 20 | In fifty years time I could be married . |
| 21 | Lady Diana said : ‘ In 12 days time I shall no longer be men . ’ |
| 22 | If practise breeds professionalism and The Wishplants are this adept now , in six months time they 'll have the gap all sewn up . |
| 23 | I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’ |
| 24 | As I look back now though I realise the similarities , in six months time I will be embarking on a new era of my life , my first day at sixth form . |
| 25 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ In 18 months time they will see lorries cars and trains passing through the city and across the river , more than 25 feet over their heads . |
| 27 | Made in 18 carat gold it costs £380 . |
| 28 | We 'll do er we 'll do the traffic and trains and planes in full after the er main news in ten minutes time we 'll check the whole lot then . |
| 29 | And I see it as part of my problem in education is to erm , change the attitudes of the the boys who are , you know , at a very young , and I 'll be sorry to think that in ten years time they would still be having erm the rather arrogant attitudes that they have ! |
| 30 | So in ten years time you would have a maturity of X number of pounds |