Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spoke for forty minutes and carried the whole audience after a prolonged debate . |
| 2 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 3 | The book of Genesis tells how God had created the world in six days and commanded the seventh to be a day of rest . |
| 4 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 5 | In Mark and Matthew 's accounts Jesus returned three times and found the three asleep . |
| 6 | The unrest lasted for three days and constituted the largest outbreak of racial violence in the US capital since the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968 . |
| 7 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 8 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 9 | I had broken the cycle of eight thousand lifetimes and defiled the banal brahmin inside me , polluted him by contact with the testable , the material proofs of induction . |
| 10 | It made seventy claims and described the two-channel stereo record adopted worldwide since 1958 , and foresaw quadrophonics . |
| 11 | The difference remained insignificant when the remaining 33 studies that used the 17 item and 21 item Hamilton score were included by ascribing weighted standard deviations . |
| 12 | We ascribed weighted average standard deviations to the remaining 33 studies that used the 17 or 21 item Hamilton score as an end point so that the results for all 49 studies could be pooled . |
| 13 | Level paid twenty-five francs and took the beautiful work home under his arm . |
| 14 | The visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Syrian capital , Damascus , for talks with President Hafez al Assad on May 2-3 , was the first by an Egyptian leader for 13 years and marked the full normalization of relations between the two countries , broken off in November 1977 at the start of Egypt 's peace initiative with Israel . |
| 15 | Early-season mechanical problems with his car in 1972 were too big a handicap , despite his late-season burst , for him to win his third title but another title came in 1973 when he won five races and surpassed the all-time records of Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) and Jim Clark ( GB ) . |
| 16 | Patsy Gallacher went on to play for Celtic for 15 years and scored the winning goal in their famous cup-winning side of 1925 , when he beat the entire Dundee defence and somersaulted into the net with the ball between his feet . |
| 17 | Warders in riot gear stormed the room after four hours and marched the 12 protesters to a segregation block . |
| 18 | Third , the CD4 counts and percentages returned to normal within four months as did the inverted CD4/CD8 ratios ( a new finding to our knowledge after symptomatic , primary HIV-1 infection ) . |
| 19 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 20 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 21 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 22 | Rondar 's 370 , designed by Stephen Jones specifically for the competition , was one of the two boats that made the final selection . |
| 23 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |
| 24 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 25 | The City was shocked when it learned that the Midland was the least profitable of the big four banks and had the weakest capital . |
| 26 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 27 | Er we won two games and lost the other two . |
| 28 | It was the complex interaction of these two factors that shaped the sexual mores of the majority of the population . |
| 29 | In the last category fell four types that embodied the ideal qualities of physical form as set out in the ‘ canon ’ of Polyclitus : the diskophoros ( discus-carrier ) , the doryphoros ( spear-carrier ) , the diadumenos ( victor crowning himself ) and the hero Hercules . |
| 30 | An old friend of President George Bush , Tower was a senator for Texas for 24 years and chaired the Armed Services Committee from 1981 to 1985 , but suffered humiliation in 1989 when the Senate rejected his nomination as Defence Secretary [ see pp. 36515-16 ] . |