Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You get , or you get two cars of equal speed , along straight
2 So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for .
3 The next entry lists 19 other women of rather higher legal status ( lidae ) : " All these women either make shirts of 8 alnae or they pay 4 pence . "
4 He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one .
5 And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then .
6 And I remember once old used to gather sacks , ken bags and , and he went to , and I remember one night he come , he 'd been round the country hawking and he come home .
7 And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these .
8 Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age .
9 With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday .
10 And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these .
11 We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple .
12 All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’
13 And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out .
14 You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ?
15 And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind .
16 Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ?
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 ) .
20 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 . ’
21 And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 I do not count calories any more and I eat three meals a day .
25 And I put one morning , s seven tonnes before dinner in .
26 that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits
27 I have a blister under my right ear , and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours , the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account .
28 ‘ That 's right and I want two things .
29 and I want two boxes
30 My husband and I own six dogs , three Rough Collies and three Greyhounds .
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