Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee .
2 Listen to what they say — maybe some place coming free soon , maybe some place they could have let you have three months back but it went to someone else .
3 So how come you had nine pound last week ?
4 With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest .
5 In well it were done you know one fellow get on with that .
6 ‘ I seen you dance one time .
7 I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown .
8 If they are selected they have 37 months of rigorous training ahead of them . ’
9 ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed .
10 The Russians have said they have 50,000 tons .
11 Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances .
12 Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops .
13 like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David .
14 Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy .
15 They have instructed us to sub-let 20,000 sq ft of offices , surplus to their requirements , for three years .
16 Well I may have missed something you 've said , but I have n't heard you say fifteen years before .
17 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 !
18 ‘ I was told I had 14 days to leave the country because my visa had expired .
19 I 'm told I have six months to live .
20 The psychiatrist has told him to take three pints of lager .
21 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 .
22 Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ?
23 Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions
24 And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible .
25 Both Adie Smith and Jason Pratt phoned to say they had only just heard we have two games on Saturday .
26 Once you 're retired you have three months to get out .
27 When she was born she had two sprouts of what seemed to be orange hay on her head .
28 The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay .
29 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 ) .
30 His father could only say falteringly that ‘ My conscience has never allowed me to influence two people to marry . ’
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