Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 2 | And he 'd make sure he used me till about nine o'clock . |
| 3 | I came storming through , caught him with about five metres to go and won in 10.23 seconds . |
| 4 | We found him at least two of my officers did , in a bath full of boiling water in the shower rooms . |
| 5 | He played a full season of grade cricket in Western Australia during our winter , without any recurrence of the back problems which limited him to under 40 overs in the Championship for us last summer . |
| 6 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 7 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 8 | The last photograph of herself showed her at about twenty-five , here in the garden at Greystones , sorting apples into baskets . |
| 9 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 10 | He also had the advantage of employment at a much livelier court — that of Mantua where Tasso became his friend , with that of Ferrara and the celebrated three lady singers who ornamented it from c. 1580 onward near at hand . |
| 11 | But th that 's actually they followed him for about ten miles . |
| 12 | We followed him to where two of his companions were hiding under a row of vines . |
| 13 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 14 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 15 | Watched it for about ten minutes never laughed once ! |
| 16 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 17 | Yes erm , erm I think I knew her from about six years ago when I |
| 18 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 19 | Er I offered it for about eight hours a day , but they might send us somebody might . |
| 20 | And erm we sent it to well one of my other sons in Australia there and he was thrilled to bits . |
| 21 | Gloucester needed an early score , an early lead and they got it after just 9 minutes when they won a penalty right in front of the posts . |
| 22 | Mr Maxwell bought them for around 5 times that much . |
| 23 | From this point of view , opportunities must have seemed slow to come , but de Valois gave him at least one chance every year from the time of his joining the company : Adieu and Tritsch Tratsch in 1947 , Children 's Corner in 1948 and , for the following year , his most ambitious production to date , Sea Change . |
| 24 | I found it in a pawn shop and I was n't sure what it was , but I bought it for about 20 dollars . |
| 25 | I did it for about six months here and there . |
| 26 | London hardly set foot in their own half in that second half , but , with Morris constantly exhorting his forwards and putting in key tackles , the North restricted them to just one Rob Andrew penalty goal . |
| 27 | But anyway , our , our prisoner , we , we , we are fairly sure he 's been released , he 's a , we had him for about two was it one or two years ? |
| 28 | She could n't swim , so that left her with only two options : she could stay where she was and wait for whoever was lurking there to reach out of the darkness — but with her nature that was unthinkable — or she could run the gauntlet . |
| 29 | He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived . |
| 30 | Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know . |