Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 're adding a positive number , so if I say add plus three to a number , it 's the same as just adding them , okay ? |
| 2 | I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ? |
| 3 | and then you suddenly want to indent , which is say come in five s five spaces |
| 4 | The British Trust for Ornithology estimates that about 90pc of owls freed die within 10 months , usually from starvation or collisions with vehicles . |
| 5 | If we got add minus three , that 's the same as take away plus three , just take away three . |
| 6 | If your doctors says that you 're going die within twelve months , we will accept it as a diagnosis of a critical illness . |
| 7 | How many of a set of points at which rainfall is measured lie within 50 km of Cambridge ( relative location ) or in the rectangle defined by the lines of latitude 55°N and 58°N and the lines of longitude 1°W and 3°W ( absolute location ) ! |
| 8 | The units shown go to 6,000 gallons which represent a pond some 12′ × 14′ × 6′ deep ; effectively you could double or treble these up but they would be difficult to disguise . |
| 9 | All the three turtles shown belong to one species , but differ considerably ; it was upon the existence of such differences that Darwin was to base his theory of natural selection leading to divergence and eventually to the emergence of new species . |
| 10 | We who are waiting shuffle from one foot to the other and cough under our breath like worshippers in a chapel ; we are dressed in clean clothes and depressed in a Sunday sort of way … |
| 11 | Right , and er , the third point I want to is that , you , what you 're actually getting consist of two elements . |
| 12 | The Dunera , an 11,000 ton former troopship , bound for Australia , set sail on 10 July . |
| 13 | From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 14 | So , after years of preparation , Columbus finally set sail in 1492 . |
| 15 | Most of the trees affected die within two to three years , while a small proportion recover . |
| 16 | Cos if you get em If you put a bo A multiple choice and if They 're not actually think they just like look at one and , Oh I do n't really like that all I do n't really like think about it . |
| 17 | Would he not agree er that the fact that erm the Home Office plan to give allow for seven million pounds extra er for the police budget in W in Wales whereas in actual fact local government has chosen er to give only two point two million er through the police budget er is a disgrace and reflects very badly on the running of the police authority and on the chairmanship of that committee . |
| 18 | Although the Black report does not contain any explicit statement about the period that it covers , none of the analyses on which it is based go beyond 1983 . |
| 19 | Smooth join between two splines |
| 20 | The target date for the operation was fixed at 15 May 1779 , at latest , when 30 French ships of the line , plus frigates and corvettes , would join up , off Corunna , from which the Spanish Armada had set sail in 1588 , with the 20 battleships promised by Spain . |
| 21 | Time limits normally negotiated vary between six months and four years . |
| 22 | Ideas of how the Universe will die vary from one scientific theory to the next . |
| 23 | The Tec Ni Wavers come in four sizes for a variety of finishes and the perm solution comes in two strengths — natural and coloured hair . |
| 24 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 25 | Why does not that rule go in 1992 instead of limping on until April 1993 ? |
| 26 | There now arose the question of the appointment of a new Headmaster : Newstead , appointed Usher in 1826 and temporary Headmaster since Hoyle 's death in 1829 , was also Assistant Curate at St. Peter 's Church , and was a minister first and schoolmaster second . |
| 27 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 28 | No they keep open till eight . |
| 29 | It is also worth nothing , I think , that although ‘ whole-person ’ , ‘ humanistic ’ approaches seem superficially to be opposed to behaviourism in their recognition of the individual 's personality , on closer inspection the two views on learning seem in one fundamental respect to be essentially alike . |
| 30 | ‘ We have the ‘ revolving-door ’ syndrome where people who have been sent to jail go in one door and come out the other . ’ |