Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah there was about three kids three kids in a in one of these cupboards , and they were sniffing butane gas . |
| 2 | A much loved man and most loyal of Tonbridgians , he served more than 50 years on the OF Committee . |
| 3 | Er they wanted to charge us eighty pence per transaction , and after a lot of argument we managed to pin them down er at er ten pounds for the at at the rate of two pounds fifty per quarter . |
| 4 | He got fifteen minutes in the of acting . |
| 5 | of the five pounds for a for a full book |
| 6 | er and other commitments that twelve men in a in a village such as erm Pentiford or Pentiford will give twenty four hours cover for fires , all through the year and there are very rarely incidents where you can not turn out a crew . |
| 7 | Yes and er we used to have about two hundred three hundred birds on the for the shooting and then perhaps about a hundred and fifty or so or something like that on the second . |
| 8 | You know coming from seventy to hundred a sixty five in fact when had their sales meeting last Friday it was observed that the sales force in the er which were gathered which we do every two months in the in the major suite the training suite er conference suite at head office er that was the total number of sales execs we had in January the previous year . |
| 9 | ‘ He improved his position by two places on the down hill run , having been 16th at the turn at the top of the hill . |
| 10 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 11 | Consequently the two uses of the to infinitive arise from representing the extra-verbal support either as separated from the actualization of what the verb denotes by a lapse of time or as attaining the place in time where this actualization takes place . |