Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She separated from him in 1929 and later divorced him . |
| 2 | Forty seven , forty eight , forty nine , fifty , fifty one , fifty two , fifty three , fifty four , fifty five , fifty six , fifty seven , fifty eight and when did you get married again ? |
| 3 | She just puts March ninety eight and then leave it at that . |
| 4 | Euler proved it in 1736 by the method of exercise 1.4.17 and later generalised it . |
| 5 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 6 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 7 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 8 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 9 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 10 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 11 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 12 | Young Jack was born in early ‘ 41 and never knew him . |
| 13 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 14 | The Tigers have had a political wing since 1976 but never registered it as a legal party . |
| 15 | last season Gloucester had two games against Rugby in seven days … they knocked them out of the cup by 23 points to 3 and also beat them in the league that was quite a tussle … the cherry and whites won by nineteen points to sixteen and once again got the try of the game … |
| 16 | okay multiply it by ten and now divide it by ten . |
| 17 | for ten and then take you know so you can absorb things . |
| 18 | So ten to the nought point nought three , is the hundredth root of Find the hundredth root of ten and then cube it . |
| 19 | During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on . |
| 20 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 21 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
| 22 | with the lights fading , it 's gon na be five o'clock in half an hour 's time , feed the dogs just before five and then see you you see . |
| 23 | And if you 're flying more than one bird , you can take the transmitter off when you 've finished with one and simply attach it to the next . |
| 24 | Elvira is possibly the only lady in the world who can not be accused of enlarging her chest by putting tissue paper in her bra ; firstly because she is never seen in one and secondly have you seen the points on her high heels ? |
| 25 | If you do n't have a built-in steering lock , get one and ALWAYS use it if you 're leaving your car unattended . |
| 26 | CHOLESTEROL not calorie , appears to be the watchword of the 1990s but how do you know what your cholesterol level is ? |
| 27 | I am proud to be a member of a Government who have increased health spending in real terms since 1979 by nearly 40 per cent. , treated 900,000 more people in Scotland last year than in the year in which we came into office , increased the number of nurses by more than 9,000 and now pay them 41 per cent . |
| 28 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 29 | so she 'll be looking at three five two and then contacting you and saying look I 'm now |
| 30 | He 's done this in two and then sandwiched them together . |