Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 4 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
| 5 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 6 | Brown told him in thirty seconds . |
| 7 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 8 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 9 | And he cut it in ten blocks . |
| 10 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 11 | He ripped the last few berries off their bush , swallowed them in one gulp , and surveyed the mess he had made with satisfaction . |
| 12 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 13 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 14 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 15 | His support of Wilson in 1963 , and the Labour victory of 1964 , brought him in one leap to the Cabinet and to the summit of his career . |
| 16 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 17 | Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes . |
| 18 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 19 | The farm was her prison until her inheritance from her father 's estate freed her in three years ' time . |
| 20 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 21 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
| 22 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
| 23 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 24 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 25 | Three legends share the quickest century but Bernard Ganley , David Watkins and Steve Quinn did it in 18 games . |
| 26 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 27 | We did it in twenty minutes flat . |
| 28 | Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night . |
| 29 | He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces . |
| 30 | He had a fight with a man called Connell , and demolished him in ten minutes . |