Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to sit down one of these days … |
| 2 | Indeed , it was not until 1940 that under the demands of world conflict and with cost almost no object , the War Agricultural Committees laid down thousands of miles of concrete roads along the droveways throughout the fens . |
| 3 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 4 | According to Mikhail Vinogradov at the Moscow-based Oceanology Institute : " The Dnieper , Dnestr and Danube bring in millions of tons of industrial wastes and pesticides every year , while passing ships drop some 10 million tonnes of oil annually . " |
| 5 | Perhaps first off , I could give you all , er , you 've all filled in one of these evaluation sheets before on a course have n't you ? |
| 6 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 7 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 8 | The Hetherington study shows the increase in the amount of parliamentary news carried on three of the main news programmes , Channel Four News , BBC1 's Nine O'Clock News , and ITN 's News at Ten : |
| 9 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 10 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 11 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 12 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 13 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 14 | Every time he found one he held all the flapping notices down one by one , and read through lists of hockey teams , and announcements of meetings to be held by religious societies . |
| 15 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 16 | As it was , the market drifted from the outset , leaving the FTSE after the first hour of trading down 0.6 at 2860.0 . |
| 17 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 18 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 19 | In Uganda , the number of people estimated to be HIV infected is 1.3 million , representing over 1 in 8 of the entire adult population . |
| 20 | Non-compliance is the principal factor in therapeutic failure and studies report over one-third of treatment failure is due to this ( Taitz et al . |
| 21 | The Poor Law was already almost entirely financed by local poor rates ; rates contributed over one-third of total educational expenditure ( £8.8 m. in 1900 ) and the major part of the cost of public health , housing and other measures . |
| 22 | Although there were limited route transfers to British Caledonian before privatisation , BA was left as the dominant carrier and , at the time of privatisation , provided over three-quarters of British scheduled airline services . |
| 23 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 24 | Water boards flood valleys , culvert streams , run concrete open drains across hillsides and fence off millions of acres of wild and open land . |
| 25 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 26 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 27 | OXFAM is calling on Western governments to write off billions of dollars of foreign debt to help countries rebuild after war and faminine . |
| 28 | LOCAL authorities were challenged yesterday to make towns and cities more ‘ walker-friendly ’ by opening up hundreds of miles of hidden footpaths . |
| 29 | Local teams confirmed their strength by notching up three of the four titles , with Lismore romping to a 38–9 win in the intermediate decider and Loreto , Omagh , retaining their crown with a 21–14 win over St Michaels . |
| 30 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |