Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 2 | The speculation aroused by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer 's statements at the Ecofin meeting in September 1991 that there could be an inner core of eight countries served to emphasise the difficulties of reconciling such a proposal with a wider Europe and to draw attention to the two-speed concept . |
| 3 | All six companies appeared to find the outlooks from Henley useful . |
| 4 | But Arsenal 's first League goal for six weeks failed to placate the Highbury faithful after four successive defeats , and Wright 's overdue reconciliation with respectable behaviour was a small mercy indeed . |
| 5 | In August 1991 Muscovites chose to defy the tanks of the old regime . |
| 6 | Six patients agreed to have the procedure performed under local anaesthaeia and six opted for general anaesthaesia . |
| 7 | All three parties undertook to support the caretaker government until the elections . |
| 8 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
| 9 | It was a much less gallant-seeming host which eventually reached the town of Moffat in upper Annandale , where three waters met to form the Annan . |
| 10 | Sales growth was evenly spread across the group , but all three divisions continued to feel the impact of the recession in Britain , and , unlike the previous year , suffered from the downturn in North America . |
| 11 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 12 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 13 | Around fifteen thousand spectators came to watch the thrills and spills … for the organisers it proved another successful Classic . |
| 14 | Ten experts refused to sign the report . |
| 15 | They died when part of the Sun Valley processing plant in Hereford collapsed as 120 men from 3 brigades fought to control the fire . |
| 16 | At the first national delegate conference of the Social Democratic Party on Jan. 12-14 delegates agreed to change the party 's name from the Social Democratic Party of the GDR ( Sozialdemokratische Partei der DDR — SDP ) to the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) . |
| 17 | Six arrests were made as the vehicles were attacked and a cordon of 50 police struggled to keep the crowd of about 250 at bay . |
| 18 | More than eighty inmates came to watch the experts in what 's a highly popular sport inside |
| 19 | The wind and rain ceased over the next two days , but giant waves of up to fifteen feet continued to batter the shoreline , flooding and wrecking many homes . |
| 20 | A revolving stage with five sets helped to keep the pace fast and furious . |
| 21 | And in West Oxfordshire the Conservatives are hoping to recapture some of the seats they lost when fifteen tories resigned to join the independents in a row over the poll tax two years ago . |
| 22 | Some of the 70 children helped to serve the food prepared by the school cooks and sat and chatted with their guests . |
| 23 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 24 | More than 150 officers battled to end the violence at a remand centre in Reading , Berks . |
| 25 | On 2 March 1988 two bailiffs attended to execute the warrant . |
| 26 | The Senate ( upper house ) rejected the key elements of the bill when giving it a first reading on March 22 , 1991 , and conciliation between the two houses failed to resolve the issue four days later . |
| 27 | In February 1943 two parties went to reconnoitre the Sicily beaches , after some frustration in Algiers . |
| 28 | In the naval sphere the Royal Navy 's Armilla patrol in the Gulf was reconstituted with two frigates ordered to join the destroyer York on Aug. 3 , and three minesweepers were sent to the eastern Mediterranean on Aug. 14 and redeployed to the Gulf on Aug. 29 , when another destroyer was also sent . |
| 29 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 30 | ‘ I was in the water about 20 minutes before being fished out into a lifeboat and eventually two destroyers arrived to take the survivors to Reyjavik . |