Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilbert White was proud of his early cucumbers , cutting the first of 1753 on 5th April to take to his brother in London and when he discovered they were priced two shillings apiece in Town , arranged for a further thirteen to be conveyed on the coach from Selborne . |
| 2 | Lot number twenty six Lot number twenty six , the grey jade pendant there 's the grey jade pendant showing Lot twenty six for thirty pounds at thirty , thirty five , forty , forty five , fifty for you sir , thank you , five sixty , sixty five seventy offered I 'm bid seventy in the centre now and selling for seventy , seventy five to my right eighty pounds eighty five eighty five , the lady 's offer , sir at eighty five pounds , any more at eight five pounds . |
| 3 | Lot number thirty nine thirty nine is the coal holder there it is seventy pounds for this , at seventy , seventy five , eighty pounds at eighty pounds at eighty pounds any more at eighty only , at eighty , eighty five , ninety pounds , ninety five , a hundred pounds , and ten , twenty , one thirty offered I 'm offered one thirty on my left and selling for one hundred and thirty pou one forty standing one fifty one sixty one seventy going on sir ? |
| 4 | Five hundred , five fifty six hundred offered I 'm offered six hundred against you , six fifty seven hundred seven hundred to my left , at seven hundred pounds . |
| 5 | Lot number forty five is the scribe scribe 's set , there it is for three hundred pounds , at three hundred , three twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred , four twenty , four fifty four eighty offered I 'm offered four eighty to my left , five hundred seated , five fifty six hundred six fifty going to you sitting six hundred and fifty , going on ? |
| 6 | Four twenty , four fifty four eighty offered I 'm offered four hundred and eighty pounds , anybody else at four hundred and eighty pounds , have you all finished at four eighty ? |
| 7 | Lot number one two six Lot number one two six is a silver bowl there 's the silver bowl fifty for this , at fifty , fifty five pounds at sixty , five , seventy offered I 'm offered seventy to my left , at seventy , seventy five eighty pounds eighty five ninety ninety five ninety fi one hundred offered one ten one ten to my right seated , at one ten , all done at one hundred and ten ? |
| 8 | Thank you , Lot number eighty four Lot number eighty four a square seal there 's the seal showing eighty for this one , at eighty pounds at eighty pounds , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty one forty fifty one hundred and fifty at the back against one sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two hundred to my right , at two hundred pounds , any more at two hundred , two twenty , a new bidder two fifty , at two hundred and fifty , two eighty three hundred offered I 'm offered three hundred to my right and selling for three hundred pounds . |
| 9 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 10 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 11 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 12 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 13 | Had they been born 15 years earlier , Tumbleweed would probably wear loon pants and big belts and be called something like Satan 's Spaceship . |
| 14 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |