Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 2 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 3 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 4 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 5 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 6 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 7 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 8 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |