Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 3 | Far more controversial is the CHA proposal to open up the 1984 Canada Health Act . |
| 4 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 5 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 6 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 7 | Talbot was on deck when the launch brought back the six survivors . |
| 8 | Earlier , all three countries dismissed an offer to hand over the two men to Malta . |
| 9 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 10 | Cargolux in turn brought in the three hauliers as fourth parties by serving fourth party notices on them . |
| 11 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 12 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 13 | The IRA blast knocked out the five operating theatres in the regional orthopaedic hospital which is also noted for its care of geriatrics . |
| 14 | 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 . |