Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My flat had a sitting room , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen , looking over a tree-lined courtyard , and I got 3 meals a day every day including Sunday . |
| 32 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 33 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 34 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
| 35 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 36 | And I heard one woman in the audience say , ‘ Look , her hair pins have just fallen out . ’ |
| 37 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |
| 38 | And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started . |
| 39 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 40 | Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price . |
| 41 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 43 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 44 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 45 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 46 | And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it . |
| 47 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 48 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 49 | And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da ! |
| 50 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 51 | And I had one sergeant downstairs patrolling the er street level . |
| 52 | There were only two rooms in our house , and I had nine brothers and sisters . |
| 53 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 54 | Er and I had three shillings change . |
| 55 | And I had three strokes on each hand for that . |
| 56 | No , I swear to God Jean he had three , he had two pints and a glass , and I had three vodkas and it , Jean , do n't be silly the only reason that wee bugger 's |
| 57 | And I had three kings and two queens , which sobered me a little bit . |
| 58 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
| 59 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |
| 60 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |