Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb -s] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 2 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 3 | The society claims , however , that recent votes show it has 3-1 support in the House of Lords and more in the Commons . |
| 4 | Yeah , cater , mater , that sounds A R T , no there 's only one R , count well I just hope he brings one thing home |
| 5 | ‘ I only know it has four wheels and it goes , ’ she said , laughing . |
| 6 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |
| 7 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 8 | My file called stat it says zero airlines . |
| 9 | You were n't actually on , on this , I think he needs two illustrations that 's right yeah , so , do n't , do n't |
| 10 | All I remembered is , they got , it 's chocolate and it 's got brandy in it , cos she was gon na put , I think it says three teaspoons |
| 11 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 12 | He opens the door no wider than an old lady would , and I notice he has one foot firmly behind it just in case . |