Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 2 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 3 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 5 | It was held on the anniversary itself , and for me followed three days of interviews and other press events organized by Cathy and Chris . |
| 6 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 7 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 8 | And all of them had one thing in mind . |
| 9 | Any of yous got ten P ? |
| 10 | In front of her stood twelve women . |
| 11 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |
| 12 | In front of him sat two folders . |
| 13 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 14 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 15 | Two of us averaged four shoes an hour . |
| 16 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
| 17 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 18 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |
| 19 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 20 | However , I stayed a bit longer and when all the girls , all of us had three months ' notice to leave , it was dreadful , you see , because we were fully trained by that time you see . |
| 21 | Each of us invested ten shillings and we met to decide our bets . |
| 22 | If you inject the right amount you could feel like you had six glasses of your favourite tipple . |
| 23 | Behind him stood two Han servants who , after a moment 's hesitation , entered the room and began to dry Berdichev with soft towels . |
| 24 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 25 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
| 26 | He married Alice Abel 29 September 1653 at the church of St Dunstan in the West , London , and with her had five daughters and four sons . |
| 27 | ‘ The mate who was with him said one minute he was talking to Tony at the side of the road and the next he was flat on his back . |
| 28 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 29 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 30 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |