Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler and Gower held him up for a while with 91 for the third wicket , but by the close of play he had two more — including a caught and bowled — and on Monday morning , cutting down his run-up , he polished off the tail to finish with 7 for 53 . |
| 2 | Of course they helped one another . |
| 3 | ‘ About 12 people went along to the basic 15 week course and of course we have six who have gone on to get the certificate . |
| 4 | Of course he had one of the big ones at the front . |
| 5 | Now of course he has two failures to build upon . |
| 6 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 7 | In the intermediate steps , however , the numbers are incommensurable : for brevity of exposition we give four decimal places only , though of course a computer will normally employ a much greater number . |
| 8 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 9 | With a small cry of anguish she took one last look at him and turned and fled . |
| 10 | By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months . |
| 11 | As an order of magnitude we found 25 male and 16 female hypertensives under 40 on our definition in a mean population of about 1900 of all ages ( 227 men and 213 women aged 20–39 ) over 21 years . |
| 12 | Inside our home we have a lot of furniture we have four rooms and one in the bathroom , one in the bedroom and one in and one in the lounge and one in the kitchen here |
| 13 | The machine will no doubt tell you but erm and for every fifty pounds of petrol you get one pound for Argos . |
| 14 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 15 | To escape the pernicious influence of fashion we need three things . |
| 16 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 17 | To refute charges of atheism he cited two religious treatises he had written , ‘ Sabbath-dayes exercises ’ and ‘ Positions in Divinitie ’ ( apparently unpublished and now lost ) . |
| 18 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |
| 19 | But in the conversational recordings , the speed at times was often averaging 400 , and for fragments of utterance it approached 500 . |
| 20 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
| 21 | During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work . |
| 22 | From the stratigraphical point of view we have two formations . |
| 23 | From the functional point of view you require two types of working ferrets . |
| 24 | If I can have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . |
| 25 | ’ If I have a game of polo I feel five hundred times better in my mental outlook . ’ |
| 26 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |