Example sentences of "the [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 2 | In 148 of the 168 procedures I recorded whether I used diathermy . |
| 3 | For both the 1654 and the 1659 Commons he kept a sort of diary . |
| 4 | With only one defeat in their last seven games , Sefton will be hoping that Robin Earwaker collects the eleven points he needs to top the century mark this season . |
| 5 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 6 | HAVING finished second to France , and thereby won what the footballers used to call the Home International championship , Scotland can hardly be grudged the eight players they have in the British Isles task force for the invasion of New Zealand this summer under captain Gavin Hastings . |
| 7 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 8 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 9 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 10 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 11 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 12 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 13 | They hung on to most of the key marginals , with Labour only managing to win three of the eight constituencies it hoped to capture despite increasing its vote in almost every seat . |
| 14 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 15 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 16 | Well no , I mean , a tha even tha that one the other day with the eight workers I mean it |
| 17 | ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 19 | The match-winners were Newton , who added five penalties to the 478 points he had already scored this season , and Ness , the Scots captain . |
| 20 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 21 | Semangat " 46 , however , lost five of the 12 seats it had held , and both its deputy president , Datuk Rais Yatim , and the DAP chairman , Chen Man Hin , lost in their constituencies . |
| 22 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 23 | The 12 dealers we spoke to had 54 orders between them . |
| 24 | You always hear of the 2 goals they had disallowed … so ! ? |
| 25 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
| 26 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 27 | He commented : ‘ In the 30 years I have been with Unilever these are the first redundancies . |
| 28 | Smith and Efford will both have to win if Labour is to secure the 326 seats it needs to form a Government with an overall majority . |
| 29 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 30 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |