Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 2 | Young , Hay , and Ellis ( 1985 ) asked 22 people to keep records over an eight-week period of difficulties they experienced in recognizing people . |
| 3 | He described eight principles to adhere to in order to free ourselves from suffering : |
| 4 | The pound , which has been under intense selling pressure for most of the past seven trading days , rallied 2.4 pfennigs to close in London at DM3.0342 . |
| 5 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 6 | The church provided 800 buses to take couples and relatives to the stadium . |
| 7 | An agricultural commune was established at Lindfield but seems to have been short-lived , and Lord Chichester helped 300 people to emigrate . |
| 8 | In this case , Morgan invited three strangers to have sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 9 | Powerful incumbent airlines found three ways to erect strategic entry barriers and consolidate their market power . |
| 10 | William was heard to exclaim as , with their foot beginning to give way , the Jacobite horse charged three times to restore the situation , forcing some of the attackers back into the river . |
| 11 | The anaesthetist tried three times to insert it . |
| 12 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 13 | The BP Road Safety team of Elaine Craig and Kerry Livingstone visited 50 schools to highlight the dangers on roads . |
| 14 | So this year , for New Scientist 's student books issue , we invited nine people to select what they thought were the most interesting books for students published during the past year . |
| 15 | In this way he found 38 flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 16 | A chamber was opened and I realised that , like many wise householders , Santerre used one room to store huge vats of water against the very fire we were now fighting . |
| 17 | Macaques were picking up potatoes , taking them to the sea , and washing the sand off the potatoes ; they used one hand to dip the potato into the sea , and the other to brush the sand off . |
| 18 | He used one end to shield his mouth from the smoke and wrapped the other around the fingers of his free hand . |
| 19 | The conference , held on 7 March , drew 150 women to discuss issues such as gender-specific human rights abuses , rape and refugees . |
| 20 | It cost 60 francs to send a ton of freight from London to Braila , on the Black Sea , by ship ; to take it the much shorter distance from Vienna to Bucarest by rail cost 160 francs . |
| 21 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 22 | The brewery employed 65 coopers , used 130 horses to move the beer out to publicans , and consumed 500,000 barrels of water a year from its own artesian wells . |
| 23 | Frankfurt : The DAX index rose 14.69 points to end at 1,658.12 , within 20 points of the record high set last month . |
| 24 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 25 | Gary Hooker at Saks used two wigs to create this fabulous dressed evening look . |
| 26 | The men used two cars to force the driver to stop on a main road before tying him up and abandoning him in woods . |
| 27 | Esquire asked six writers to describe their worst holiday experience |
| 28 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 29 | Yeah , but then you still got six wages to pay out , have n't ya . |
| 30 | Gavin , from Fareham , Hants , an archivist in the historic ship HMS Warrior , based at Portsmouth , scored 32 points to win the 21st competition . |