Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paceman Karl Peers , recovered from injury , bagged 3–33 and Darren Peters picked up 2–28 to steer the Hall to a home tie , probably against Styal , in the zone final on Sunday week . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 3 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 4 | He has grunched up hundreds of humans and literally millions of Minpins . |
| 5 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 6 | The much-praised new ski area at Aonach Mor near Fort William which opened last season has picked up two more awards in the close season , including one for architecture . |
| 7 | Oxfordshire County Council has picked up two of this year 's Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Awards ; the accolades are n't given lightly , and Moira Haines from the Preservation Trust says the County Council 's Awards are well deserved . |
| 8 | So far the survey has picked up 20 galaxies ; it should eventually find several thousand . |
| 9 | Since then he has picked up 20 disqualifications and has served 12 jail sentences . |
| 10 | The 20-year-old , who has picked up three Premier League bookings already this season , also sprang to the defence of the game 's most notorious tough guy Vinny Jones . |
| 11 | For the past two years , a cross-party section of politicians , mountaineers , hillwalkers and fishermen has lobbied the Ministry of Defence to retain the unit at Leuchars , which since its inception in 1955 has carried out 2,731 rescues . |
| 12 | Consultant ENT surgeon Mr S Kaluskar has carried out 220 tonsil , 58 sinus , and several larynx operations since the machine was installed in 1991 . |
| 13 | The youngster was referred earlier this year to the Bristol unit , which has carried out 50 transplants involving unrelated donors — the highest number in Britain . |
| 14 | The youngster was referred earlier this year to the Bristol unit which has carried out 50 transplants involving unrelated donors — the highest number in Britain . |
| 15 | Harefield Hospital has carried out 48 heart transplant operations . |
| 16 | Mr Lloyd Webber has built up one of the country 's finest collections of Pre-Raphaelites , which is split between his 10,000-acre country estate in Berkshire and his home in Eaton Square . |
| 17 | Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart . |
| 18 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 19 | And you can see here the affect of er forty six percent increase in the price of bread , seventy eight percent on beer , eighty four on cars , and R P I has moved up seventy nine percent . |
| 20 | Mark James has moved up 15 places to 38th following his victory in the Tenerife Open . |
| 21 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Ms McGinley has turned down two reasonable offers , which have subsequently been taken up by other tenants . |
| 23 | ‘ Cash Asmussen has turned down six rides in France for him , so he must fancy his chances , ’ smiled the trainer . |
| 24 | Stroud District Council has turned down three applications from superstore companies which want to build in Stroud . |
| 25 | And youngsters from eight to their teens are lacing up their boxing gloves and joining his flourishing club , in a gym in Larchfield Street , which has turned out 29 amateur British boxing champions . |
| 26 | The Swedish nuclear safety board has closed down five elderly boiling-water nuclear reactors on safety grounds [ see also ED 59-60 ] . |
| 27 | I guess she has used up one of her nine lives . |
| 28 | Grampian has drawn up six programmes which they hope will qualify for EC aid , ranging from re-training schemes , tourism development in upland areas and harbour towns , and transport and communications improvements . |
| 29 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend , in his inimitable style , has smoked out one of the hidden parts of the Opposition 's agenda . |