Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 2 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 3 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 4 | They tend to fall into two broad groups : |
| 5 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 6 | I I tend to agree that the criteria tend to fall into two sorts . |
| 7 | Gerry was taught to drive in nineteen forty six in the States , where they , they gone , they 'd gone over to total automatic , and he despised manual gears , thought they were a ridiculous waste of time and effort , said you want to concentrate on the , on the road , not on the car , but then you see Gerry improved himself , he was a |
| 8 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 9 | This change in the law was forced on the government by the European Court of Justice which decided in favour of a woman who did not want to retire at 60 . |
| 10 | It may well be a mistake for a director to restrict earnings in favour of dividends , however , if he thinks he might want to retire within 13 years . |
| 11 | Police are investigating two more cases of carjacking bringing to four , the total number of such robberies in the past week . |
| 12 | But I do n't want to go from eight o'clock |
| 13 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 14 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 15 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 16 | But will anyone want to sit through nine hours of amateur theatre ? |
| 17 | Matt Williams seized on some poor Cubs pitching to drive in four of the Giants runs and Will Clark lifting his series batting average to .625 when he reached base on three of his four at-bats . |
| 18 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 19 | How much would one swallow eat in one hour then ? |
| 20 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 21 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 22 | As I said , spring ninety four is gon na be the latest date for the site we want to start that phase as early as possible so that we can then get onto to the other phase as early as possible because we obviously do n't particularly want to wait until nineteen ninety five ninety six to , to finish the whole thing . |
| 23 | Well , I say , he tend to go at eleven and three , so think about it . |
| 24 | The chill worked its way into her bones and she curled up , trying to preserve her warmth , knowing she was failing as her body became racked by one continuous shiver . |
| 25 | Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas . |
| 26 | The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models : first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation , and later structuralism . |
| 27 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 28 | She had n't , and they agreed to meet at seven . |
| 29 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 30 | Cones tend to come in two shapes — some , either cardboard or plastic , with a pointed top and others with a gap of about one to one and a half inches at the top . |