Example sentences of "we [verb] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’ |
| 2 | Last year , we produced 100 fuel elements for the German FRJ-2 reactor and 150 for the reactor operated in Australia by ANSTO . |
| 3 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 4 | We asked five advertising agencies how they would market the ‘ product ’ and reverse its shrinking market share . |
| 5 | WE asked five city fashion shops to provide us with clothes which they considered epitomised Merseyside style : |
| 6 | We asked three fashion designers to customise a plain red bodysuit on a budget of just £10 . |
| 7 | Just go in there right we got two chocolate bars |
| 8 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 9 | Yesterday we got five tracing agents to come into our office , all of them offered to get details of people 's bank accounts , |
| 10 | So in the urban context we encounter two rental incomes generated from the same physical entity : the ground rent and the house or occupancy rent … |
| 11 | 16.16 In our first Report we proposed two attainment targets for reading for ages 5 to 11 . |
| 12 | We encountered one agency offering ( free ) training to its contractors via a system of credit points acquired through service , but it seems this practice is unusual . |
| 13 | They tend to say , ‘ Ca n't we do one satellite interview that covers the whole of Europe ? ’ |
| 14 | We hope one day Brian can polish the mantle piece and display our gold plated trophy and maybe perhaps carry the flag in the next Olympics . |
| 15 | For cDNA amplification we prepared two oligonucleotide primers encompassing the P3A exon : a forward primer that hybridizes to the α subunit sequence 61–83 5' GGG.AAT . |
| 16 | We scored two grat goals and I think we just deserved to win . |
| 17 | We studied 101 family members of 47 non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects to determine the relation of birth weight with β cell function and insulin sensitivity in adult life . |
| 18 | We suffered three air raids . |
| 19 | ‘ We interviewed five design outfits and asked them to submit plans . |
| 20 | We interviewed 21 investment analysts who are known to have a specific interest , and responsibility , in the health and household sector . |
| 21 | We face 100 job cuts and losing services throughout the borough . ’ |
| 22 | If you 're looking at that , we maintain three point centres |
| 23 | We spent two summer holidays and three Christmases at the melin before at last we were able to claim it for our own occupation . |
| 24 | To illustrate the analysis of earlier chapters , we present four case studies selected from the 125 interviews with known and hidden heroin users . |
| 25 | To this end we present three case studies . |
| 26 | To evaluate long-term variations in soil erosion in the Pátzcuaro basin we collected 20 sediment cores ( 1.24–2.85m in length ) from the lake in 1988 using a simple gravity-percussion corer ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 27 | At the headstock end we find one plastic string retainer , meaning the high E and B strings approach the nut at an appropriate angle , but consequently suffer from inhibited movement when tuning . |
| 28 | Shall we have two breakfast appointments , yes . |
| 29 | During 1984 , prior to the establishment of the Pub Catering Department , we initiated two pilot schemes . |
| 30 | In order further to investigate this implied relationship between heroin use and social deprivation , we employed 1981 Census statistics to examine correlations between the rate of known opioid use and levels of social deprivation in each of Wirral 's 48 townships ( unemployment figures were for May 1985 , and included temporarily sick residents ) . |