Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 2 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 3 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
| 4 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 6 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 7 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 8 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 9 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 10 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 11 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 12 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 13 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 14 | When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes . |
| 15 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 16 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 17 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 18 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 19 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 20 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 21 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 22 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 23 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 24 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 25 | At the peak moment of the 6-day picket of the coke works , 800 police officers found themselves containing 15,000 pickets . |
| 26 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 27 | She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town . |
| 28 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 29 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 30 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |