Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 2 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 3 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 4 | Large anti-war demonstrations followed the outbreak of the land war on Feb. 24 , when a total of 50,000 protesters marched through the streets in Madrid and Barcelona demanding an immediate ceasefire . |
| 5 | Fifty-three patients participated in the rehabilitation programme and 63 acted as controls . |
| 6 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 7 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 8 | According to government sources more than 180 LTTE fighters and 30 soldiers died during the operation . |
| 9 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 10 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 11 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 12 | Six months remained for the building to be finished . |
| 13 | There were six candidates shortlisted for the post of Gloucestershire 's Chief Constable … and late this afternoon the winner was announced … |
| 14 | More than 200 scientists from thirteen countries participated in the shuttle mission , which was designed to allow research in the materials and life sciences to take place under microgravity conditions . |
| 15 | Last week , a mob of 100 fishermen went on the rampage at Peterhead and destroyed the £200,000 cargo of frozen cod due to be landed by the Russian trawler , Romb . |
| 16 | In 1926 , only 26 films went before the cameras . |
| 17 | Minutes later , a small group of six figures emerged from the woods . |
| 18 | On Jan. 7 demonstrations erupted in the Gaza Strip against the planned deportation of 12 Palestinians [ see this page ] . |
| 19 | Our attempts to characterize additional components involved in the expression of classical pol III genes led to the detection of an activity in the flowthrough fraction of phosphocellulose , which significantly stimulated the expression of t-RNA , VA-RNA , 5S-RNA and U6-RNA and which was finally identified as TFIIA on the basis of the following experimental evidence : |
| 20 | A procession of 30,000 demonstrators marched to the Parliament building , where they presented a petition calling for action against unemployment and the increasing cost of living , and a halt to the privatization programme . |
| 21 | A striking example of the area 's isolation occurred when Yakovlev and his thirteen men arrived at the end of their horse-ride in the village of Nikol'sk . |
| 22 | After unsettled early histories all six children came into the care of the local authority in June 1989 . |
| 23 | More than 100,000,000 voters participated in the elections , the highest number in US history . |
| 24 | A typical run over 10 seconds began at the moment of address and finished with the follow-through . |
| 25 | Yesterday , another British armoured vehicle with six men arrived in the village . |
| 26 | Up to 300,000 Muslims marched on the Algiers Parliament yesterday to demonstrate against ‘ threats to Islam ’ . |
| 27 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 28 | With limbs beginning to tire only eight boats took to the water for the final two-lap race . |
| 29 | Often these gloves were dipped in a mixture of glue and ground glass to produce terrifying results Almost one in three fights ended in the death of one of the competitors . |
| 30 | A black female cat sat on the floor while her three kittens squealed in the bath , said Mr Owens . |