Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert Ninham , 75 , admitted indecently assaulting two boys aged 12 and 11 in November last year . |
| 2 | Wolfgang recovered sufficiently to give two concerts in Amsterdam where his new symphony ( No 5 in B flat , K.22 , written in The Hague ) was played . |
| 3 | After months of surgery and chemotherapy , she recovered enough to make two films . |
| 4 | The structure of the degree in the Faculties last mentioned normally comprises two years of foundation courses followed either by finishing courses in the third year , for a general degree , or by two years of honours courses for an honours degree . |
| 5 | The contracts that the Grants finally drew up took five sessions of three quarters of an hour each , but after the initial , inevitable slanging match the sessions were amicable . |
| 6 | They consist of a rectangle of thin metal , bent twice to grip three sides of a matchbox , and a printed paper cover crimped in a protective film of transparent celluloid . |
| 7 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 8 | I said We 've got one man booked anyway for the re Oh she says Do n't want one , he 's hopeless is my husband , he 'll never manage , you 'd better put two men on the second half as well you see . |
| 9 | I said we 'd better take two days over the trip and make a stop-over on the way . |
| 10 | Yeah er , you 'd better get two packets , and what else do you think ? |
| 11 | He 'd only made two twists when he stopped , listening . |
| 12 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 13 | When we toured with the Inspiral Carpets — which was good for us to do at that point — we 'd only done 20 gigs as a band , and were n't experienced in the ‘ problems ’ of a support act like monitors being mysteriously unplugged during the performance , and an ever-shrinking stage , but we still did the business ! |
| 14 | Well , he 'd only scored 2 goals in 2 years before the Ford fiesta at Cambridge last weekend . |
| 15 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 16 | She 'd only got five minutes in which to change out of this crumpled dress and fix her make-up before interviewing yet another applicant for the job of a daily nanny to help her look after the twins . |
| 17 | And er there there was a major who 'd only got one eye . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You 'd only got six months to live ? ) |
| 20 | You think you no a colour until you try the er , and the one I actually picked out when she measured it off , she 'd only got three yards and I needed four and a half . |
| 21 | Mr said he did n't have the heart to tell them how , you might think it 's good value but he did n't when he 'd only paid fifteen pounds fifty a ticket . |
| 22 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |
| 23 | Women currently aged 45 to 59 said they 'd only had 2.6 lovers , while men the same age boasted of 13.6 girlfriends . |
| 24 | I mean she 'd only left two rings on her plate . |
| 25 | Lorenzo Semple Jr came in to spend six weeks writing three quick drafts to create the character for Dustin — the wimpish , thickly bespectacled Louis Dega , ‘ the best counterfeiter in France ’ , who did not exist in the Charrière book . |
| 26 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 27 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 28 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 29 | erm and I 'd just got one comment that I like to make and er then the question . |
| 30 | But because he 'd already served five weeks on remand he was released . |