Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-o-one squadron originally set up in 1917 , was reformed in 1984 as one of only two refuelling squadrons , after the Falklands had shown a strategic use of air-to-air refuelling . |
| 2 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 3 | A wall of water a thousand feet high smashed down on Nagarythe . |
| 4 | UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record . |
| 5 | Eight hundred thousand — imagine them drawn up down there on the sea — eight hundred thousand candles all blown out in one gigantic breath . |
| 6 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 7 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 8 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 10 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 11 | The four assassins finally caught up with Tyrion and his charge , coming upon their camp by night . |
| 12 | Topaz nodded and two days later set out with Sister Cecilia and Sister Anne , who were to be her escort . |
| 13 | In 1907 he joined Straker Squires in Bristol and four years later teamed up with his father 's engineering firm . |
| 14 | But the hardy director returned to the location four days later propped up by alcohol and Vitamin B12 shots . |
| 15 | With their help the loading ramps of both rigs were lowered , then the four men immediately moved off to either side to cover everyone from attack . |
| 16 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
| 17 | ‘ Two policemen simply turned up at my rooms as I was leaving , without any appointment or anything , and insisted on interviewing me . |