Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I w I I would think so I mean it it wo n't occur in five minutes of course erm and I I would still say that I would like to see them in the six yard box more often . |
| 2 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 3 | The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning . |
| 4 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 5 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 6 | Shortly after moving into The Kilns , Minto had engaged a gardener to help her with the eight acres of ground . |
| 7 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 8 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 9 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 10 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 11 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 12 | Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) . |
| 13 | Sir George stamped his conclusions so firmly on the subject that no one had the temerity to question them until the sixties . |
| 14 | The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production . |
| 15 | The last two made her suspicious of Russia , and even ready to fight her in the 1870s . |
| 16 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 17 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 18 | So I mean , I will continue to harass him through the twelve months if possible , because I think |
| 19 | I was going all out to turn them into the Seventies ’ strongest band . ’ |
| 20 | The desire to modernise the UKCC and the national boards , and to condition them for the 1990s is uncontentious and is supported by the Opposition , by the professional organisations and by the health unions . |
| 21 | The site 's owners , Hanson Plc , promised to preserve the site , to spare it from the two perennial dangers of the era — being covered by an office block or , worse , being renamed the Branagh theatre . |
| 22 | The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ . |
| 23 | Other sources of unease were the unfulfilled aspirations of the minority Shiite community , mostly concentrated in the region south of Baghdad , and the occcasional stirrings of the Communist Party which had gained strength during the Qasem period and become solidly represented in the army until efforts to purge them in the 1970s . |
| 24 | I always said if I won the 100 it would be very hard to beat me in the 200 . |
| 25 | Both organisations have encouraged younger women to join them in the eighties and nineties and there is some indication that their membership is on the increase . |
| 26 | Ossie wanted to ask him about the two gentlemen of Verona . |
| 27 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 28 | Werner came to our rescue with the loan of a hundred dollars , which would have to see us through the three or four months it might take us to reach Aru . |
| 29 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 30 | Hundred thousand pounds you do not have to submit an inland revenue account , therefore you do n't need to tell them about the three hundred thousand pounds and therefore you wo n't pay inheritance tax . |