Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 2 | If we had six pizzas and we shared them out between two of us how |
| 3 | His partner , and captain , was Mickey Walker and her steadiness , combined with flashes of flair from Llewellyn , got them round in 69 , three under par , for a two-round total of 137 , one shot behind the leaders . |
| 4 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 5 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 6 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 7 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 8 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 9 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 10 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad . |
| 12 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 13 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 14 | As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers . |
| 15 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 16 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 17 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 18 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 19 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 20 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 21 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 22 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 23 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 24 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 25 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 26 | She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in . |
| 27 | The commons granted it again from 1343 to 1346 , from 1348 to 1351 , 1353 to 1356 , and in 1356 for a period of six years . |
| 28 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 29 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 30 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |