Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 2 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 3 | 2 Pour in enough water to cover the meat , season to taste and simmer gently for 20–30 minutes until cooked through . |
| 4 | Of the 49 movements that make up the collection of 1708 , 35 are connected by incipit to at least one other in the same tonality . |
| 5 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 6 | Krasner outlived her husband by nearly 30 years and went on working as a considerable painter in her own right until 1984 . |
| 7 | The bluefin — a giant predatory fish that can live for 30 years and weigh up to 1,000 pounds — has declined in number by 90 per cent . |
| 8 | The last is a source of amusement for Waggoner 's family and friends , who find it delightfully bizarre that a man who weighs around 300 pounds and dresses down with a passion should pen a guide to etiquette and fashion for the vaunted Esquire magazine . |
| 9 | The large size of the Faculty allows unparalleled opportunities for postgraduate study and the diversity and breadth of interest is represented by the twenty-one departments that make up the Faculty of Arts . |
| 10 | This rectified image was then subsetted to give an area covering the 49 wards that make up the districts of Oadby and Wigston , Leicester , and Charnwood in northern Leicestershire ( Fig. 5.1 ) . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
| 12 | Souness , who is also set to tie up the deal for Norway defender Stig Inge Bjornebye , said after Saturday 's 4-1 Anfield triumph against Middlesbrough : ‘ He played 45 minutes and came through without any problems . |
| 13 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 14 | Apply to face and neck , leave on for 10–15 minutes and rinse off with cool water . |
| 15 | She plunged into the sea , grateful for the buoyancy of the salt water , then decided to push herself , swam the width of the cove six times and stumbled out onto the sand , shivering . |
| 16 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 17 | sometimes they come to Edinburgh and then go away for six months and come back to Glasgow |
| 18 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 19 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 20 | It is now brewed in 44 countries and sold in over 130 . |
| 21 | Guinness brands are brewed in 44 countries and sold in over 130 countries . |
| 22 | I have been out of europe for about six weeks and come back to find all this transfer mania going on . |
| 23 | Carry On Columbus was made in six weeks and weighs in at £2.25 million . |
| 24 | When you 've completed all six questions and filled in your name and address , detach the page and hand it to a sales assistant at your nearest gas showroom . |
| 25 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 26 | Manager John Lambie dropped six players and brought in Nelson , Law , Jamieson , Irons , Cameron and McWalter . |
| 27 | I pranced about and lay on the ground and turned the lens through 45 degrees and stepped in pore-scouringly close , but what I was really doing , what I was after , was a good shot of Stuart 's double chin . |
| 28 | Needless to say , Liverpool are aiming to better their first round performance in appalling weather when their side was reduced to 10 men and went down 4-2 . |
| 29 | After months of work Prestbury Park looked proud of itself today on the eve of what horseracing folk regard as their Olympic games … to race … to ride … to watch at Cheltenham is the highlight of the year … millions of pounds will be bet on the nineteen races that make up the festival and this is one place where the budget rarely bites … |
| 30 | ARMY officer James Mundell , 22 , was jailed for eight weeks and kicked out of his brigadier father 's regiment yesterday for brawling at Bulford , Wilts . |