Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 2 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 3 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 4 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 5 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 6 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 7 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 8 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 9 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 10 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 11 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 12 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 13 | Police in Peterborough , Cambs , traced them within 15 minutes and took the baby and the man to hospital . |
| 14 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 15 | They caught them within 5 days . |
| 16 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 17 | We helped them with three posts yeah aye , on your plate |
| 18 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 19 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 20 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 21 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 22 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 23 | Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels , which were driven ashore by a storm , and then burnt by Wulfnoth . |
| 24 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 25 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 26 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 27 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 28 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 30 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |