Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My machine is a Brother 890 and last week I bought a ribber , so the letter from A. M. Roberts-Jones in the May issue was very helpful . |
| 2 | Against my advice , Walter , despite being 78 , was immediately named manager for 88/89 and this time we were runners-up and promoted . |
| 3 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |
| 4 | Well actually it , it is down this quarter , it is down this quarter , because our erm , our total last , last quarter , the balance brought forward was seventeen pounds fifty five and this time it 's six pounds seventy six , so we 've reduced the erm the deficit so it is down |
| 5 | there 's skimmed and their semi skimmed was ninety eight , but the fresh stuff was a hundred and five and last time I get some it was ninety seven |
| 6 | This was the one and only secret he kept to himself , this secret of his passionate and sudden , spasmodic affinity for men he saw . |
| 7 | ‘ The one and only thing you share ultimately together is sex and if you step outside your marriage you are sharing that one ultimate thing with another body another person , ’ Claudette tells him . |
| 8 | " I want you , Eddie , that 's the one and only thing I came about . |
| 9 | The one and only thing she could do and must do was to fetch help — swiftly . |
| 10 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |
| 11 | from about hundred and fifty pound you could pay . |
| 12 | Any Right , two hundred and fifty pound it is . |
| 13 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 14 | she said Chris oh you 're off the subsidy , she said I 'd got my wages anyway , er because she 'd only collected sixteen hundred and , hundred pounds so that , seven six are forty two , hundred and two pound you see |
| 15 | He said I 'm not gon na do nowt about it , he says well , we 've put a part on it that cost us a hundred and forty pound he says . |
| 16 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 17 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |