Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | At the Lefevre there were only four oils , including Fishing Canoe ( Colour Plate XVII ) and Banana Plantation ( Colour Plate XVI ) , both priced at forty guineas , twice the sum asked for most of the thirty-eight watercolours . |
2 | In the qualifying pool his seven-try spree — Brew and his policeman colleague Ian Strange scored in each of the five matches — helped Hong Kong 's comparatively modest outfit beat Zimbabwe on the try count and , accordingly , clinch a place in the World Cup Sevens final tournament . |
3 | I mean I do think that this is we have n't yet , I go back to the claim I made before that in the hundred days since he 's been Prime Minister his concentration has been taken up by the Gulf war , obviously . |
4 | On the other hand , if the income as it arose in each of the five years was paid out to Mr X that would have no tax consequences : he could not be assessed under TA 1988 , s739 as he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
5 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
6 | Conditions improved after 1933 , but a measure of agricultural depression persisted through much of the 1930s . |
7 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
8 | Since the Survey 's seventh question asked visitors to comment on the exhibitions which they had seen on the day of their visit , it was possible , by noting the number of replies which related to each of the three exhibitions , to discover the number of visitors attracted by each exhibition , whatever their assessment of it . |
9 | The artist had three sittings at Highgrove , each supposedly an hour in length , but each of which in fact lasted throughout each of the three mornings . |
10 | Yet Britain 's GDP per head remained behind most of the Six original EEC members , much of Britain 's trading improvement with Europe was in oil exports and she was actually in deficit , especially to West Germany , in manufacturing trade . |