Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder . |
| 2 | In 1802 Wordsworth produced eight stanzas in the manner of Thomson 's Castle of Indolence , which give first a self-portrait and then a description of Coleridge : |
| 3 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 4 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 5 | She made 2 complaints to the review panel . |
| 6 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |
| 7 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 8 | In desperation I took a typing course and moved fifty miles down the road to here , to the first job which would have me . |
| 9 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 10 | The results of the research , which involved 300 patients in the UK , Australia and Germany , were disclosed by Paul Griffiths , professor of virology at the Royal Free Hospital , London . |
| 11 | The previous census , in 1991 , reported 45 tigers in the park . |
| 12 | Borehole geophysics The Group borehole geophysics team logged 44 boreholes over the year , mostly in collaboration with the BGS Hydrogeology Group and with the mapping groups within the TMOS Division . |
| 13 | After a broken rudder , an unlucky windshift , a dubious umpires ' penalty and meeting rivals New Zealand and Il Moro di Venezia on the top of their form , the luckless Nippon 's 150lb carbon-fibre boom crumpled six minutes before the start of her second clash with Il Moro . |
| 14 | Three years ago the first ever races here drew 12,000 fans for the flashing lights , thunderous music , fireworks , balloons — and , yes , the ski racing . |
| 15 | The helicopter rose six feet into the air , tilted forward to gain airspeed , and buried its nose-wheel in the ground . |
| 16 | A far more impressive performance was turned in by Katabatic , who defeated three rivals in the Aintree Chase and may be seen out again before the season ends . |
| 17 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 18 | In the oral history of the North Shore , 18 January 1985 is remembered , in part , as the day Ken Bradshaw swam three times round the Bay . |
| 19 | Two of the BBC documentary team , which spent a week inside the boy king 's tomb , almost died when a hotel lift crashed 21 floors to the ground . |
| 20 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 21 | The government charged three executives of the Nairobi daily Standard with publishing false reports claiming that people had died attempting to resist the demolition team ; the charges were dropped in mid-July . |
| 22 | He strode in purposefully then stopped three paces from the T'ang , clicking his heels together and bowing his head . |
| 23 | This was in a state of semi-continuous eruption , with minor explosions taking place every five or ten minutes , showering fragments of pumice 200 metres into the air , and occasionally revealing the cherry-red glow of liquid lava in the crater , while all the while a great banner of steam rose 3,000 metres into the air . |
| 24 | Vinnie rose 5 feet into the air … and unfortuantely missed the ball entirely , having completeyl mistimed the jump : - ) ) ) Bobby Davisons superb goal after about 2 mins … |
| 25 | It is certainly popular , but is only a ‘ must ’ for those happy with a bouncy bridge of wooden planks held together with rope suspended 80 feet above the sea . |
| 26 | One of the exceptions was ‘ Management and the Special School ’ edited by Tony Bowers which devoted 17 pages to the governor 's function . |
| 27 | In 1980 , just after the revolution , the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visited Nicaragua and inspected ten prisons around the country . |
| 28 | The pound rose 3 pfennigs against the mark . |
| 29 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 30 | A violent demonstration at the time drew 20000 participants to the site . |