Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [num] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 2 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 3 | Most studies used either the 17 question or the 21 question instrument , although other versions were occasionally used . |
| 4 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 5 | A second application which cuts out the 18 starter and retirement homes is recommended for approval . |
| 6 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 7 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 8 | And that proved a costly mistake as super dad Polston pounced to prise away the three points and send the Canaries of Norwich flying high after again ruffling the feathers of their championship detractors . |
| 9 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 10 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 11 | Even the late Legers ( not the most favoured period in the artists ' output ) sold well the 1951 pen and brush study of the lower torso of a barefoot construction-worker , seated on a chair , sold ( to the same buyer as ‘ Nature morte au buste ’ ) for $180,000 ( £100,000 ) ( est. $60–80,000 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 14 | Of the 80 unrelated control subjects , 53 were homozygous for the 3.6 kb fragment ( 3.6/3.6 ) , 23 were heterozygous — that is , they possessed both the 3.6 kb and the 3.5 kb fragment ; 3.6/3.5 kb ) — and four were homozygous for the 3.5 kb fragment ( 3.5/3.5 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 15 | And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week . |
| 16 | As he knows the talks process brings together the two governments and the main constitutional parties in working together to find an accommodation , and I think that is right . |
| 17 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 18 | Mendoza had been accused of covering up the 1985 kidnapping and murder , allegedly by a police intelligence unit , of three members of the Chilean Communist party [ for April 1992 arrest of Mendoza see pp. 38860-61 ] . |
| 19 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 20 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 21 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 22 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |