Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 4 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 8 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 9 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
| 10 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 11 | Well you got you got three months from the date of termination which you can take as effect from the twenty second of June to make a claim to the industrial tribunal . |
| 12 | If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay . |
| 13 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 14 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
| 15 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
| 16 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 17 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 18 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 19 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 20 | In the week before work began I prepared three documents . |
| 21 | Where their flesh touched she became one thing with him . |
| 22 | Haynes has tended to be the less adventurous of the two and does not quite have his partner 's determination to hammer the ball into a distant wall , but before the series began he had 5,340 runs at 41 , with twelve centuries , to his name all the same . |
| 23 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 24 | But the court heard he passed SIX slip roads where he could have turned off . |
| 25 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 26 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 27 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 28 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 29 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 30 | so she 's still needed , I think she bought a three bedroomed house which meant she had two girls two girls and a boy , she had three children . |