Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 2 | Few realise the toll erosion 's taken on the 200 year old structure . |
| 3 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 4 | Is not that what we would have expected when the Government take on the 16 to 18-year-olds and perpetuate the myth that that age group is in full-time employment , in full-time training or in full-time education ? |
| 5 | straight on the four one four from Chelmsford , picked up the M eleven followed the M eleven up and took the A forty five across country . |
| 6 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 7 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 8 | A month later on the twenty fourth of May nineteen eighty eight , there was the first of a series of operations to correct deformities of both feet and the left wrist . |
| 9 | A month later on the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight another operation lengthened the left achilles tendon . |
| 10 | On the earlier electronics , you ca n't use the double-length switch on the 580 and modular electronics , the knitting sequence is the same as when it is not in use . |
| 11 | Later on the 40 pins will reveal themselves to be tiny light bulbs . |
| 12 | So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires . |
| 13 | It was installed to step down the 33,000 volts supply received at Hindhead from the national grid , to 11,000 for local distribution . |
| 14 | How could he have accepted such a proposal without letting down the fifty thousand people who worked for him ? |
| 15 | I throw on my overcoat and step into the pitch-black hall , take off my shoes and start to trot quietly down the twenty-two flights of steps . |
| 16 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 17 | Deciding against riding the lift back down , she walked to the stairs , and ran quickly down the eight flights . |
| 18 | The Palmers have been promised a back door ramp to get Mrs Palmer into the garden in case of fire , but no ramp to get her down the 5 garden steps into the street . |
| 19 | Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for . |
| 20 | The mosaic extends the length of the nave as far as the presbytery , into the apse , and down the two arms of the transept and survives as a visual encyclopedia of the medieval mind . |
| 21 | Erm so that 's why I 've put down the two . |
| 22 | As the poem reaches its climax , Stephen — naked but covered in paint : green body , red cock and yellow balls — will leap , screaming down the 200 feet into a safety net . |
| 23 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 24 | Squeaky Sutton , the landlord of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ for the past thirty years , looked up as the noisy party clattered down the four steps into his cosy cellar bar . |
| 25 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 26 | Glide down the four miles of restored canal in the twelve seater passenger boat ‘ Thomas Dadford ’ . |
| 27 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 28 | Meg pushed past him and jumped down the four steps in her haste . |
| 29 | Lee ‘ s briskness had been a last stand and she was ready to turn and walk down the five flights of stairs again when the door in front of her suddenly swung open and Lee found herself walking through the doorway . |
| 30 | He went to his window , and looked down the five storeys into the courtyard . |