Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More film roles are expected to come rolling in after the Oscars on 29 March , although Thompson claims she is a no-hoper for glamorous parts . |
| 2 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 3 | ‘ From 1976 to 1986 I worked part-time in Family Planning Services to fit in with the demands of three children ’ , she writes . |
| 4 | We attend the lectures along with the students from 10 — 12:30 each day ; we are both small group leaders which means we have six or seven students each ; we pray and share our lives together , help work through with people what changes God is making in their lives . |
| 5 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 6 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 7 | He had , however , noted that in clamping down on the protests of 1980 the Polish party had acted under great Soviet pressure . |
| 8 | About six months earlier I 'd put my name down on the lists of three housing associations , because I was sick of the council houses they were giving me . |
| 9 | How is it that police forces such as Lothian and Borders are this year reporting crime rates back down to the levels of 1981 ? |
| 10 | And their flagship , Somerwest World at Minehead , is certainly tuned in to the tastes of 1992 . |
| 11 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 12 | Cologne , 2-0 down from the first leg in Belgrade , won through to the quarter-finals with two goals from Goetz , his equaliser coming seven minutes from time , and a last-minute winner from Ordenewitz . |
| 13 | It was in caves near Irkutsk that the Russian imperial treasure of gold was buried after the 1917 revolution , then handed over to the Bolsheviks in 1920 . |
| 14 | It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906 . |
| 15 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 16 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 17 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 18 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 19 | When he leaves here , he faces four tournaments — Antwerp , Toulouse , Paris and Wembley — in five weeks to tune up for the Masters on 27 November . |
| 20 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 21 | It 's actually mostly made up of the skeletons of billions of tiny sea creatures . |
| 22 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 23 | Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice . |
| 24 | He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities . |
| 25 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 26 | RONALD Fraser 's In Search of a Past was published in 1984 , and Ralph Glasser 's Growing up in the Gorbals in 1986 . |
| 27 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 28 | We 'll have Anne tied up in the libraries for two or three days going through the periodical indexes , that 'll be another hundred plus whatever the xerox charges are . ’ |
| 29 | The remainder were taken up in the amalgamations of 1974 , which coincided with the creation of the Metropolitan Councils , and today 's amalgamated forces often seem to owe as much to local and national political opportunity than to any operational logic ; and even two decades after the first melding together of the small forces , attempts to standardize uniform and systems of operation has consistently failed to dislodge many localized , small-scale beliefs and practices . |
| 30 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |