Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A writer is also eligible if he or she has three works broadcast on the radio or the television .
2 Every day she or he produces nine lbs of hazardous waste and drives an average of 30 miles .
3 Mind you my regular 's back and she charges three pounds .
4 Well perhaps she only gets two pence a week pocket money and she saves one penny .
5 Her mother , Joy , is a physiotherapist at the Memorial Hospital , father , Jim , is overseas director for Newcastle engineers NEI and she has two brothers , Christian , 15 , and Simon , 11 .
6 And she hath twenty-eight days clear ,
7 No , he 's going to give me fifty because , do n't forget , he 's in a small bed and he eats thirty pounds worth of food .
8 ‘ All you do is hit this man a couple of times , and he sends two shooters to stake out your flat .
9 It 's almost the only training Maurice does , and he averages 18 marathons and 10 half-marathons a year .
10 Now , lets say he picks him to play in your next match , and he scores 5 goals .
11 So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him !
12 Before he is through , Tate is claiming that ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ represents ‘ probably … the only valid religious poetry we have ’ , and he isolates two features of the writing which lead him to think this .
13 Broadly , if he gives the property away to his son or a share in his agricultural partnership to his son absolutely and he survives seven years no inheritance tax is payable .
14 If the taxpayer gives away his business or an interest in his business to his son and it is an absolute gift and he survives seven years then no inheritance tax is in point .
15 The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ .
16 Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C.
17 And show him subtraction by counting off , erm you buy something for thirty seven P , and he gives fifty pence .
18 I think he was instrumental in Leeds winning the title and he has 11 goals already this season .
19 But I got my own back — at the time I was writing a column for the Guardian , so I wrote '20 Things You Did n't Know About the Editor of The Sun ’ — the Editor of The Sun wears his pyjamas over his head and he has twelve daughters , all called Spot .
20 We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty .
21 Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard .
22 And he has four daughters with the gift of prophecy : doubtless they engaged in the mission too .
23 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
24 Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy .
25 If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week .
26 The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off .
27 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
28 The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain .
29 Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina .
30 paper about that Robin Reliant and he 's done it all up and it does hundred mile an hour !
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