Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 2 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 3 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 4 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 5 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 6 | Just as you have written off the 1991 vintage in France , a sample appears on the doorstep to confound you . |
| 7 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 8 | In this type of case it is better to set out the two consequences in separate sub-paragraphs . |
| 9 | Quinn was racing down the three flights of stairs to the lobby-level . |
| 10 | b ) Add up the three angles of each triangle and compare your answers . |
| 11 | c ) Add up the three angles of the four other triangles you have drawn in this exercise . |
| 12 | The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former . |
| 13 | Reaching down , he delved beneath three code books , hauled out the six passports with his photograph — minus glasses — and all in different names . |
| 14 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 15 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 18 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 19 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
| 20 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 21 | b ) Bring out the seven prongs of the tool and take the last seven stitches three stitches in ; return the three empty needles to NMP , ( as in K4 , K2 tog three times ) and knit six rows . |
| 22 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 23 | Kalchu had brought in the two calves from their separate pen and they were pumping their mothers ' udders , bracing their hooves and thrusting with the whole length of their sketchy bodies . |
| 24 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 25 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |
| 26 | Ski test : if you book a Ski Enterprise holiday in Tignes on March 17 or 24 , you can try out the 1990–91 range of skis from leading sports manufacturers . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's none of my business , ’ she replied , gripping the solid wood grab-rails as she went down the five steps with their non-slip treads . |
| 28 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 29 | He went to his window , and looked down the five storeys into the courtyard . |
| 30 | 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 . |