Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 2 | In the square the torches began to go out , until there were only one or two left near the dais . |
| 3 | For slow-moving expressive passages in the tenor register a horn or two added to the cellos produces a very beautiful rich tone-quality in p and mf . |
| 4 | Here you can enjoy a round or two surrounded by the magnificent Highlands , with the RIVER DEE winding its way close by . |
| 5 | One or two clattered into the cot . |
| 6 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 7 | Several heads were raised , and one or two swivelled in the direction of the doors ; the usher saw this , and started to hustle the army man away . |
| 8 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 9 | It is what I hope death will be ; an everlasting ringseat show of stormy seas , sky and cloud , an island and headland or two silhouetted in the far distance . |
| 10 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 11 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 12 | Three people were killed and more than 90 injured in an explosion on April 10 in the City of London , the financial district of the UK capital . |
| 13 | At least 11 people were killed and more than 21 wounded in the worst fighting in Somalia since the 33,000-strong international task force began deploying in December . |
| 14 | A garrison of fewer than 10,000 men had held out against massive Japanese land and air forces and more than 3,000 died in the defence and subsequent occupation . |
| 15 | There are more than 1,500 employed by the Ministry of Defence at military bases across Northern Ireland , and at least five of them have been murdered . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured in the fighting . |
| 17 | The 20 years that 1051 spent atop the petrol station turned out to be a gift in disguise . |
| 18 | The government version said that 12 people had been killed and more than 200 injured as a result of " general panic " after a grenade went off , and that 11 had died " on our side " . |
| 19 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 20 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 21 | Of the 26 members , the terms of office of no less than seven came to an end . |
| 22 | Nowadays there are only around two hundred and fifty left in the country . |
| 23 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 24 | The carnage which ensued cost many lives , the chroniclers offering totals of 1000 killed and 3000 drowned in the Swale . |
| 25 | In the most violent incident , seven people were killed and 70 injured in a clash on Jan. 9 , 1990 , between striking and non-striking workers at the Germiston railway station , near Johannesburg . |
| 26 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 27 | Some 22 Vietnamese refugees were killed and 128 injured in an arson attack at the Shek Kong detention centre on Feb. 4 , the worst outbreak of violence since Vietnamese " boat people " began arriving in Hong Kong in 1975 . |
| 28 | Although the general elections of 1931 and 1935 resulted in a 1arge Conservative majority in the Commons , e1ectioneering was not totally meaningless . |
| 29 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |
| 30 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |