Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |
| 2 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 3 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 4 | Money which in the sixteenth century had played merely a marginal , though a necessary part , now became the one thing necessary for the maintenance of life … |
| 5 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 6 | To answer the question , whether this fragment is also able to enhance transcriptional activity when ligated to a heterologous promoter , we cloned the 117 bp AvaII fragment ( nucleotides -529 to -412 ) comprising footprint I and region III ( see Fig. 1 ) in sense or antisense orientation into plasmid pBLcat2 , which contains the HSV-tk promoter ( 16 ) . |
| 7 | Fishermen from Devon and Cornish ports arrived throughout the night at Plymouth and stopped the 8,500 ton French-owned ferry Quiberon on an overnight crossing from Roscoff from docking . |
| 8 | At the time , Davide found the two women funny ; they shrieked at one another and squealed like animals at the slaughter themselves . |
| 9 | At an inquiry , the stewards considered both riders guilty of intentional interference , and as well as banning the pair , they disqualified the two horses concerned and promoted Love Returned to fourth place . |
| 10 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 11 | He was living in a bedsit in Colwyn Road , Northampton , when he subjected the 11 year old boy to half an hour of terrifying sexual abuse . |
| 12 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 13 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old leaving her body dumped in the Hertfordshire countryside . |
| 14 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old after earning himself the reputation of a habitual rapist . |
| 15 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old , confessing to fellow inmates while in prison on a previous rape sentence . |
| 16 | Since eighty two er , when we merged the two Pearson public companies we have increased Pearson 's earnings per share and dividends four-fold . |
| 17 | Oxford Crown Court heard the 24 year old defendant attacked seventeen year old Ian Barnes onthe steps of Oxfordshire Social Services in Banbury in August last year . |
| 18 | And then there 's one about the erm a protestant pastor blamed the seventeen year old death , that fellow that , that young man in the video shop that was erm shot down the father blamed the British government . |
| 19 | The bogus officers , who were dressed in full police uniform , tied the sixty year old woman up after she let them into her house in Jerviston Street , New Stevenson around eight o'clock last night . |
| 20 | The bogus officers , who were dressed in full police uniform , tied the sixty year old up before making off with cash and jewellery . |
| 21 | On Saturday 28 September , some of the hardiest souls in London and the surrounding environs took to the footpaths of Battersea Park , got cold(s) , wet , mentally tested and later drunk as they contested the 1991 Amnesty Sponsored Quiz Quest . |
| 22 | When animal welfare officers first saw the ten year old gelding Sunset Court he had been reduced to skinand bone . |
| 23 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 24 | In October 1919 , at the age of forty-three , she moved into Ivy 's flat , thereby establishing a friendship which brought the two ladies considerable renown . |
| 25 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 26 | In exchange for their work , Carrie gave the two girls free lessons . |
| 27 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 28 | Shell said it appeared the 3,625 ton Danish refrigerated cargo ship Icestar had a fouled propeller . |
| 29 | The 6ft 1in Austrian was derisively known as ‘ Laughing Stock ’ , even by some of his competitors , when he won the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic downhill having displaced the Kaiser , the great Franz Klammer , on the Austrian team in one of Charlie Kahr 's infamous eliminator races . |
| 30 | She is a member of the Trio Zingara , which won the 1981 Munich International Competition , and leader and co-director of the Contemporary Chamber Orchestra . |