Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Take one from Women 5 Weekly and rewrite the first three paragraphs for Playboy . |
2 | He retired from the imperial throne in AD 305 and spent the last nine years of his life in cultivating the soil of his native Dalmatia , constructing the city which still forms the heart of modern Split and , according to Gibbon , enjoying the ‘ most exquisite trout ’ which were bred in ‘ the little stream of the Hyader ’ ( now the Jadro ) . |
3 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
4 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
5 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
6 | You 'll be hooked on page one and spend the next 567 squirming . |
7 | ALAN McMANUS held his nerve to beat Gary Wilkinson 9–7 and reach the last eight of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston last night . |
8 | Pound was not to escape lightly , however , and although he did not stand trial he was judged insane and spent the next eleven years in confinement . |