Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of that was also due to the fact that we just did n't get into it , because of all the stuff got stolen after we 'd started and there was a big break of about five or six weeks when we could n't do anything . |
| 2 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 3 | And I 'm going to point out two or three things why it 's absolutely essential that you tell everything over the phone . |
| 4 | We have protected pensioners and other pass users for at least the last two or three years when we have been under considerable pressure to abandon free travel . |
| 5 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 6 | Since cultures tend to go sour after about two or three weeks when they are best thrown out , it is best to start a new culture every ten days or so . |
| 7 | No , I , oh I ca , I can manage them , you know , two or three days when they were babies when they were younger ! |
| 8 | In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from . |
| 9 | It takes something like ten or five or ten seconds when you made it . |
| 10 | On 11 May 1992 the wife , Frances Butler , gave notice to the husband , Robert Butler , to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for breaches of an order dated 12 September 1991 prohibiting him from entering or visiting premises where she lived and from assaulting , molesting or harassing her . |
| 11 | A person would be an active agent in deciding between two or more options when he could anticipate their potential existence and when , in doing so , he drew upon his previous experience and his previously formed values and interests to guide his judgement . |
| 12 | Then I had four or five years when I was there . |
| 13 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 14 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 15 | Oh and , well it must 've been since we were at Malton so we 'd 've had it , what , about four three or four years when we went to Malton ? |
| 16 | There are one or two instances where you can go back . |
| 17 | There are one or two areas where I remained confused but I 'm pleased to hear from Mrs that we 're going to get some more information on milestones and growth because I looked at appendix B and thought well , yes , that tells me something but not a great deal . |
| 18 | I think we competed today but erm maybe one or two areas where I thought we might have got stuck in a little bit more you know , and we 're going to have to do that against Oldham I tell you because they 'll pass and have players that can do tricks erm good side are n't they ? |
| 19 | Because it is it is very simple if you follow the guidelines and I 'm gon na point out one or two things why it 's essential that you do not make an appointment to go and see people unless they know everything up front . |
| 20 | Erm there had been one or two occasions where we have to be the management if you like , and say , No I 'm sorry , that is what we are doing . |
| 21 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 22 | Then there will be many people and organisations she will need to notify of her date of removal and her new address , such as the Gas and Electricity Boards ; the Department of Health and Social Security , for the transfer of the drawing of her pension to the post office near your home ; the local rates office , income tax office , and television rental office ; the bank manager , and building society or other places where she may have invested her savings ; her insurance agent , the headquarters of any pension fund to which she may belong , the telephone manager , and the post office for the redirection of her letters ( for which a form has to be completed and a fee paid ) . |
| 23 | six or seven times when I walked down Tesco on a lunch time on my own , they 're always at the end one , so I suppose they could get in and out , but they 're lovely kids some of them |
| 24 | As in the past we would like to share the profit with another charity and a member of the Executive Committee has offered to act as Promoter for us if we could donate enough to provide 10 holidays for handicapped and needy children where she works ( £600 ) . |
| 25 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |
| 26 | Apart from the ecclesiastical buildings of northern and central Italy , there are many towers surviving from the Romanesque and Medieval periods when they were places of refuge , fortresses and , later , status symbols . |
| 27 | And that 's why in , in buildings , industrial and commercial buildings where we put heat and smoke detectors in for the protection of life and that 's why you put it in your homes . |
| 28 | It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived . |
| 29 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 30 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |