Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 2 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 3 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 4 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 5 | Scandals involving leading members helped to discredit it by 1925 . |
| 6 | I think that the hon. Gentleman 's colleague , the hon. Member for Antrim , North ( Rev. Ian Paisley ) came to see me about one of the cases to which he refers . |
| 7 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 8 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 9 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 10 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 11 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 12 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 13 | It started when the Crown , which up till then considered swans as Royal property , agreed to share them with 2 City of London livery companies ; the Vintners and the Dyers . |
| 14 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 15 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 16 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 17 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 18 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 19 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 20 | we had to split it into two . |
| 21 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 22 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 23 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 24 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 25 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 26 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 27 | Dustin left to join them at 11.30 . |
| 28 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |
| 29 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |
| 30 | Still the local commander attempted to retake it by one of those spontaneous counter-attacks , but Pétain now intervened , crying hold , enough . |