Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 2 | Accessing this part of the package requires no fiddling with anything in DOS , but needs you to connect the two computers between which files are to be passed via either a parallel or serial lead . |
| 3 | If he has , has he noted the three pages of advertisements by receivers and administrators of companies that have failed ? |
| 4 | The difference between the 13 C of atmospheric CO 2 and leaf carbon of maize ( and certain other C4 species ) is conservative across environments and did not vary significantly with [ CO 2 ] ( B.D.M. et al. , manuscript in preparation ) , enabling us to use the 13 C of C4 leaves as a proxy for the 13 C of chamber air . |
| 5 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 6 | The fact that some policewomen carry out both sets of duties allows them to contrast the two types of community relations , with general community relations work being seen as ‘ fun ’ and juvenile liaison as more demanding and difficult . |
| 7 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 8 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 9 | The Post Office says it hopes the two sides can come to an agreement at a branch meeting this evening . |
| 10 | Above all , let us acknowledge the two principles , Dionysiac and Apolline , as the basis of tragedy , their highest achievement . |
| 11 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 12 | First , for algebraic convenience , let us call the four pay-offs , a , b , c and d ( see Figure 7. 3 ) where ( W - D ) ÷2 = a , W = b , 0 = c , and W÷2 = d . |
| 13 | And trust you to like the one person you can never have , she mused . |
| 14 | To help them pick the 20 readers who will benefit most from the course , Pendle have drawn up a questionnaire . |
| 15 | I was standing there and I was going I had the two pound in my pocket like but there 's no way I was giving her two pound so Bitch |
| 16 | Secondly , I 'd like you to identify the three members of management that he 's dealing with , are called Barbara , oh God , what are they called , Barbara , Ted and Doughnut . |
| 17 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 18 | Why stop me doing the one subject I 'm ace at ? ’ |
| 19 | Colne Valley Groundwork have produced leaflets to guide you round the eight country walks in Denham , Iver , Wraysbury , Harefield , Rickmansworth , Staines Moor , Chalfont Park and Chorleywood . |
| 20 | We would have visiting bands for the dances , too , and I remember one called The Five Aces who came from Copley and were very good . |
| 21 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 22 | Here is where I think it begins-with Mr. Henry Mendez , the Hatch & Hodges Division Manager at Sweetmary and still my boss at the time , asking me to ride the 16 miles down to Delgado 's with him in the mud wagon . |
| 23 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 24 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 25 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 26 | When they have finished ask them to answer the five questions . |
| 27 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 28 | We took her to see the Three Howes , prehistoric mounds on the summit of the moors . |
| 29 | However he welcomed the manner in which the new law had resolved the " most serious " objections which had led him to veto the 1990 version , and had made it clear that US government " requests " to third countries or private citizens for help in covert actions did not need to be reported to Congress . |
| 30 | However a fax message which went wrong meant he missed the 1991 Gold Cup and then later that season he was disqualified after winning the Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown . |