Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 2 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 3 | They had to walk , and a real hike it was — getting on for three miles I think . |
| 4 | In any case if they were n't in after three rings I was giving up . |
| 5 | I can resolve it with my 28-cm reflecting telescope , but even in × 20 binoculars it shows up only as a blur . |
| 6 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 7 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 8 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
| 9 | Mary Newport , who spent her life in children 's homes and with foster parents , met up with three sisters she never knew she had . |
| 10 | So if you wan na split that up into five segments you divide three hundred and sixty by five which gives you ? |
| 11 | But it 's when you 're built up to nine pints it makes you |
| 12 | But he admits , cost-effectiveness does depend on the number of users involved — with up to 100 users it is cheaper to use Unix , while he personally would n't suggest running a mainframe with fewer than 200 users . |
| 13 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 14 | MK 's controller can communicate with 32 peripheral devices ( either transmitters or receivers ) , and it can remember UP to 160 things it has to do every day , week or month . |
| 15 | If the man had held out for five seconds he would have been dead . |
| 16 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
| 17 | When Vicky came out after three weeks she confirmed that fear . |
| 18 | So if we did get Three out of four chances we get a blue . |
| 19 | Even so , the 1974 Press Commission estimated that perhaps eight out of fifteen mornings they examined were being subsidized by an evening paper . |
| 20 | He had caused his father to have a near-fatal heart-attack , and finally , he had used a legal wrangle to cheat his mother out of two properties she inherited on the death of her mother . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Out of 450 competitors it is expected that a few will get injured . ’ |
| 22 | Out of nine poems he set to music , Cale eventually chose four , ‘ that seemed to hang together , especially ‘ Lie Still , Sleep Becalmed ’ . |
| 23 | At one hut out of 40 occupants we were the only English-speaking ! |
| 24 | I did , and this time out of forty applicants I was successful . |
| 25 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 26 | well you sit there then , I 'll come back in two minutes I , I ca n't hear what Richard and James are doing |
| 27 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |