Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] 20 [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here , move it up and down very slightly — no more than 6ins ( 15cm ) — and repeat 20 times . |
| 2 | Hold each squeeze for 1 second and repeat 20 times . |
| 3 | Hold each contraction for 1 second and repeat 20 times . |
| 4 | Sitting crossed legged place the beach ball between your elbows at shoulder level and squeeze 20 times . |
| 5 | The FRC is chaired by Sir Ron Dearing and has 20 members and three observers ( the Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) plus one representative each from the Treasury and the Bank of England ) . |
| 6 | Federal officials made the world 's largest seizure of cocaine in Los Angeles in September when they raided a suburban house and found 20 tonnes ( 44,080 lb ) of cocaine . |
| 7 | To estimate the number of inappropriately notified anal cancers we examined all 2722 records of rectal cancers in 1950 , 1960 , and 1970 ( 8% of rectal cancers 1943–77 ) and found 20 cases of epidermoid histology ( six in 1950 ( 0.8% ) , eight in 1960 ( 0.9% ) , and six in 1970 ( 0.6% ) ; seven men and 13 women ) ; thus we estimated that there were 244 misplaced cases of anal cancer ( 107 men and 137 women ) in the entire period 1943–77 . |
| 8 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 9 | Gorman is based in Letterkenny and played 20 times for the first team last season scoring three goals . |
| 10 | A Palestinian stabbed two Jews to death and wounded 20 others in Tel Aviv on March 17 . |
| 11 | I said we could select the venues , he could write his own cabaret show ; he could go out and do 20 minutes and pull £100 a week , which was a lot of money in the 60's . |
| 12 | Torrel James , 28 , a policeman in Port-of-Spain and a former Trinidad & Tobago Youth representative opening bowler , has been jailed for 15 years and received 20 lashes with the birch after being found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend and her father in 1989 . |
| 13 | Among the bombings was an attack on Northwest 's Danish office in Copenhagen which killed one person and injured 20 others . |
| 14 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |
| 15 | This is a shareware version of a popular commercial game sold through high street stores and includes 20 missions . |
| 16 | It is a very busy yard and employs 20 workers , mostly from the village . |
| 17 | She was reprieved , and served 20 years in Perth Prison . |
| 18 | On Sept. 9 Tamil rebels ambushed and killed 20 soldiers in the north-east . |
| 19 | The big fish took a traditional mallard and claret size 10 fished on the top dropper of an intermediate line on the school house drift , and took 20 minutes to land . |
| 20 | The statue is 5.5m high and weighs 20 tonnes . |
| 21 | ‘ We came down just after the surrender and landed in Singapore and marched 20 miles because there was no transport . ’ |
| 22 | Dennis said at his corner shop in Brandon , Suffolk , yesterday : ‘ I decided to stock milk for customers and bought 20 pints on the first day . |
| 23 | In the 1987 elections [ see pp. 35091-92 ] , however , the SKDL and DEVA combined polled 13.6 per cent and gained 20 seats in the Eduskunta . |
| 24 | He was about to bank the club 's money in London 's Old Kent Road when the men , claiming they had a gun , bundled him into his car and dumped him bound and gagged 20 miles away in Surrey . |
| 25 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |