Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 2 | They have instructed us to sub-let 20,000 sq ft of offices , surplus to their requirements , for three years . |
| 3 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 4 | The psychiatrist has told him to take three pints of lager . |
| 5 | Now the freehold 's been sold to a Salisbury firm called Sarum Heritage Limited , and the new landlord 's told him to pay 1500 pounds by the end of this month or risk losing his home . |
| 6 | Mr Kaifu and his cabinet have steeled themselves to send four minesweepers , two support vessels and some 500 Japanese servicemen to the Gulf . |
| 7 | In the 5th edition we find the following footnote to 270 : ‘ In order to maintain a fixed and measured standard for developing the power of liquid medicines , multiplied experience and careful observation have led me to adopt two succussions for each phial , in preference to the greater number formerly employed ( by which the medicines were too highly potentized ) . |
| 8 | His father could only say falteringly that ‘ My conscience has never allowed me to influence two people to marry . ’ |
| 9 | Yet the Government 's stewardship of the Tate has allowed it to add one picture last year . |
| 10 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |