Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income is 168 hours and remember you can not increase this even in times of severe inflation — you have all the time there is . |
| 2 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 3 | Hexham magistrates yesterday placed him on probation for 12 months and ordered him to pay £20 costs . |
| 4 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 5 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 6 | And so every year between Christmas Day and New Year 's Day , he takes over the kitchens at Hampton Court with his forty assistants and runs them . |
| 7 | But yesterday he gave Largue , of Acklam Road , Middlesbrough , a community service order for 100 hours and ordered him to pay £500 costs . |
| 8 | One pretty senior middle manager estimated the reorganisation has cost DEC six months and said it ‘ better be over ’ by March or there 's no telling what the outlook will be . |
| 9 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 10 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 11 | In this paper we describe the results of restorative proctocolectomy in 18 patients over the age of 50 whom we have treated in the past six years and compare them with the results achieved in younger patients . |
| 12 | They cut the petticoats into six pieces and put them on to sticks . |
| 13 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 14 | You can load up to 10 applications and hold them in suspended animation in the background while you work on another app in the foreground . |
| 15 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 16 | I cut out all the short stories from nearly 100 magazines and pasted them into a collection of scrapbooks . |
| 17 | ‘ The aircraft then turned into the Harbour , climbed to sixty feet , identified a ship of approximately 5,000 to 8,000 tons and attacked it . |
| 18 | THE HARP have lost their appeal to the North Wales Coast FA against a decision by the Deeside Sunday League to deduct six points and fine them £90 for fielding two ineligible players . |
| 19 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 20 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
| 21 | Unix Expo delivered what it said it would , counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers . |
| 22 | [ Houghton ] himself would pick a dozen objects and put them in a ‘ masterpiece ’ gallery so the average Joe could taste the cream and leave ’ , yet Hoving espouses precisely such ideas throughout the book . |
| 23 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 24 | it 's not like putting pennies on the table and counting them , put twelve pennies on and share them out between three people , no problem , but you put three pennies and share them out between twelve people . |
| 25 | Tom picked up Willie 's three books and gave them to him to carry . |
| 26 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 27 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 28 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 29 | I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content . |
| 30 | A LOVELORN man hid in a woman 's attic for three days and recorded her every move on video after she spurned his advances at work . |