Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 2 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 3 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 4 | Whilst the 1985 Act obliges us to ‘ afford access to our lands for the purposes of knowledge and enjoyment ’ , it is perhaps true to say that most visitors , possibly as many as 95% , make use of the Gardens as an amenity , and that we may have failed to emphasise the ‘ knowledge ’ goal . |
| 5 | It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place . |
| 6 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 7 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 8 | Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’ |
| 9 | David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support . |
| 10 | Nor could doctors after a 999 crew rushed her to hospital in Bath . |
| 11 | Three Shield centuries , all made briskly , in the 1934–35 season ensured him of a place on Vic Richardson 's Australian tour of South Africa the following season , and he contributed steadily with two sixties and smart fielding as Australia , with their mighty spin attack , forged to a 4–0 victory . |
| 12 | But as the cockboat went aground on the sandy beach and the six men heaved it above the high-water mark , Harry saw that Sam was not with them , and by the expressions on their faces , he knew that something was wrong . |
| 13 | They 'd weigh about erm twelve , thirteen stone to put it in weight , the pigs would , yeah . |
| 14 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 15 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 16 | It would take at least another seven or eight years to turn her into a recognizable human being . |
| 17 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 18 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 19 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 20 | I think you 've probably had enough actually , you get he 's , just have one , one little bit , put your finger in , and then we 're gon na put it in the , er three fingers put it in the wash |
| 21 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 22 | It took the jury at Nottingham Crown Court less than three hours to convict them after a two-week trial . |
| 23 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 24 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 25 | Although there is much in these three books to put them in the category of Ruritanian adventure , Scott may be a stronger influence . |
| 26 | In Years I and II , students take three units introducing them to political and socio-economic aspects of the countries of the EC and they also consider the mass media in Europe . |
| 27 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 28 | We normally on the first three months do it on a group basis |
| 29 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 30 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |