Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity …
2 And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’
3 The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom .
4 Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder .
5 Kalchu had brought in the two calves from their separate pen and they were pumping their mothers ' udders , bracing their hooves and thrusting with the whole length of their sketchy bodies .
6 Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ :
7 He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee .
8 And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed .
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