Example sentences of "[adv prt] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A heavy gust of wind tore down one of the blades of Europe 's largest turbine , the VAWT 850 , at National Power 's Camarthen Bay Wind Energy Centre . |
| 2 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 3 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 4 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 5 | Kharin , unable to speak a word of English , saw Hitchcock pull off one of the saves of the season as he watched his first match following a £400,000 transfer from CSKA Moscow . |
| 6 | She started walking again , crossed the road and headed up one of the streets of Regency terraced houses . |
| 7 | We just keep following the railings , and up one of the streets to the Green … . ’ |
| 8 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 9 | He would ring up one of the women in his little black book and pay for his excesses . |
| 10 | The Family Islands make up one of the groups of tiny islands within the Bahamas . |
| 11 | Henry Condell picked up one of the papers from the table . |
| 12 | The female alights on the rim of a stranger 's nest , picks up one of the eggs in her beak , flies off with it and then swallows it . |
| 13 | He took a deep breath , coughed yet again , and picked up one of the sheets of paper before him . |
| 14 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 15 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 16 | Mick O'Shea , the surgical registrar on take and one of her old SHOs , breezed in as she was cleaning up one of the patients with a cut hand . |
| 17 | And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two . |
| 18 | Really that brings out one of the benefits of of using this sort of network because you can analyse it . |
| 19 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 20 | You can get special surface-mounting boxes which have a slot to take mini-trunking , but if these are not available , simply run the mini-trunking up to the edge of the box and knock out one of the holes in the side . |
| 21 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 22 | then you start here … in the world of karting … each and every sunday in the summer these little machines will be buzzing and blasting around one of the tracks in the country … |
| 23 | Recently , however , I have notices that they are appearing more frequently and seem to be chasing the tetras which gather round one of the exits to their cave . |