Example sentences of "six [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | twenty six forms which police had to fill in to prosecute a thief . |
| 2 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 3 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 4 | In fact , there were only six cases which attracted the attention of more than three newspapers . |
| 5 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 6 | Five six minutes you 've been in there . |
| 7 | So it 's six minutes you 'll have to leave him now . |
| 8 | The justices heard oral evidence , and after a hearing lasting more than six hours they deferred the statement of their decision and reasons for 10 days . |
| 9 | After almost six hours they failed to reach verdicts on any of the defendants , who are said to have used language students as couriers . |
| 10 | — despite both being besieged by jet-lag and the six hours it needed to complete their second rounds . |
| 11 | With shops closed for more than six hours it 's been a costly afternoon for businesses — but shopkeepers agree the caution is justified . |
| 12 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 13 | So that 's within six hours you would have worked your way through more than half of your compliment of armed officers ? |
| 14 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 15 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 16 | He could n't tell whether there was a steady stream of them , or whether it was the same five or six Hunters who were torturing him . |
| 17 | In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O . |
| 18 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 19 | It saw a pre-tax return of £10.1m ( more than one-sixth of its total profits in 1990/91 ) on a 31 December 1990 investment of £38m ( increased by a further £24m in August last year ) and now has a subsidiary worth perhaps six times its cost . |
| 20 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 21 | Babur makes six times what his father earns . |
| 22 | Six times none . |
| 23 | Which will come to , if we add them it 's six times nought point two . |
| 24 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 25 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 26 | We can the the constant is no problem we can always if we 've got ten times it five times it minus point six times it |
| 27 | Six times he has burst into the line and over for a try . |
| 28 | You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting . |
| 29 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
| 30 | So like , you go one , two , three , four , five , six six times you swap |