Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 2 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 3 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 4 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 5 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 6 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 7 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 8 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 9 | But both companies ' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years . |
| 10 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 11 | And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source . |
| 12 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 13 | MEGGITT 'S £110m bid for United Scientific Holdings could cost a further £25m , if the Singapore Securities Industry Council rules that Meggitt must buy out the 35 per cent minority in AVS , USH 's Singapore subsidiary . |
| 14 | Because of the range of the respective sizes of each range and the feel of the marker pens themselves , I chose to try out the KC-1100 Twin Point Pens in a studio context and the KC-400 Brush Pens in the field . |
| 15 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 16 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 17 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 18 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 19 | The National Society for Clean Air who 've carried out the five million pound survey said power stations in Eastern Europe are the main cause of the problem . |
| 20 | They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions : |
| 21 | Ours usually want twenty four and what our garage usually do , if you take it earlier they put down the twenty fourth of February |
| 22 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 23 | Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford . |
| 24 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 25 | Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ? |
| 26 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 27 | ‘ We hope over the five years to make a significant impact into solving the area 's many problems , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 28 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 29 | Just as you have written off the 1991 vintage in France , a sample appears on the doorstep to confound you . |
| 30 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |