Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child he played records to his parents from an adjacent room , darting between the two to make sure they were paying attention . |
| 2 | They now will have to wait for the 17.18 which previously ran at 17.08 or walk from Eaglescliffe . ’ |
| 3 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 4 | The easier alternative for video is to record the scene as a two-shot ( page 73 ) , the static nature of which can be relieved by discreetly zooming in and panning between the two speakers from time to time and then zooming back to the two-shot . |
| 5 | It follows the success of the film Hear my song which features the recordings of Josef Locke made during the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 6 | Close , mutually supportive partnerships existed through the joint responsibilities for Tutorial Classes and between WEA courses and university extension provision from its own establishment in 1903 , and the identification of shared objectives developed through the 1908 Oxford Report . |
| 7 | They had arrived independently at a similar view on the character of Prince Hal and the way in which that should be developed through the three plays . |
| 8 | Post-war immigration from the New Commonwealth developed through the 1950s and 1960s , at a time when income trends were shifting from increasing equality to increasing inequality . |
| 9 | A distinct division therefore developed between the two methods of accounting . |
| 10 | Their discord provided accompaniment for the chase that now developed between the two beings . |
| 11 | It was the same idealistic but essentially woolly vision of institutionalized divisions melting away as human contacts and common interests developed between the two entrenched camps . |
| 12 | Sir Ranulph said he became bad-tempered and tensions developed between the two men as their strength ebbed away . |
| 13 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 14 | Awards chairman Alan Peaford told the audience at Torquay that 1,266 entries , the second highest so far , had been received for the 1992 contest , from every continent except Antarctica . |
| 15 | Over 150 Safetips were received during the three month period from all three locations . |
| 16 | We got about a hundred napkins upstairs . |
| 17 | Right , but let's say that you 're not prepared to pop back , let's say that you 're sitting there and you 've got from that point , you want , you no want to go to the house , right , now you 're not you 're not gon na treat as a twenty minute call back , let's kill that for a minute |
| 18 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 19 | However disagreements arose between the two parties and after taking legal advice Mr Manners challenged the terms of the Licence and argued that his occupation had all the rights of a protected tenancy . ’ |
| 20 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 21 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 22 | Brian Lara ( 86 off 91 balls with two sixes and 13 fours ) and Desmond Haynes ( 59 off 71 balls , a six and seven fours ) wiped off the 153 needed to win the second match from just 25.5 overs . |
| 23 | If , on its own , borrowing more created value , then an arbitrage opportunity would arise between the two sorts of security . |
| 24 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 26 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
| 27 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 28 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 29 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 30 | The results were publicised during a two day exhibition at Keele University in November 1990 : the event , which included displays of the thematic maps and archival material , was promoted jointly by BGS , the North Staffordshire branch of the Geologists ' Association and the Institution of Geologists . |