Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 2 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
| 3 | The Vought Corporation is developing an ASAT ( anti-satellite ) missile for the USAF to carry on F-15 fighters . |
| 4 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 5 | The right to mine Oakenhill was bought in the early '80s by the Free Miners , who still exercise their mining privileges in the Forest under laws laid down 7 centuries ago . |
| 6 | There Philip and Richard laid down three conditions upon which they were prepared to make peace . |
| 7 | At a meeting with Communist leaders on I1 December 1934 , Fenner Brockway laid down three conditions for continued co-operation : ( a ) Neither Party was to interfere in the internal affairs of the other ( b ) The Communist Party should state clearly whether it would oppose Labour Party or ILP candidates at elections ( c ) There should be no attempt to unify the ILP and the Communist Party into a single organisation until the next Annual Conference had discussed the matter . |
| 8 | She laid down twenty pounds , and fixed on him girlish , friendly eyes . |
| 9 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 10 | The pancreatic duct was filled in 199 patients ( 84% ) . |
| 11 | The following sample program segment moves HIMEM down 100 bytes and stores the input and output file names in the memory above HIMEM . |
| 12 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 13 | Fujitsu chose to site their £400m semiconductor plant near the A1(M) bringing in 1,500 jobs . |
| 14 | On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia . |
| 15 | You will see that you have worked six rows on the centre 30 stitches at the same time , bringing in five stitches at a time at alternate ends on every row . |
| 16 | The Army will be bringing in 1,400 men and women . |
| 17 | You used to have to go down three steps , and they used to fetch the beer in a jug . |
| 18 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 19 | Each tank was carried on four pairs of tracks , making a total of 16 points of support to each vehicle . |
| 20 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 21 | The Church of S. Luke has a central dome carried on 12 piers with squinches to transform the square into an octagon while higher up are small pendentives which convert the octagon to a circle . |
| 22 | They make the kind of music which makes sense if you 're driving down 200 miles of American highway , which does n't mean it 's particularly good , as anything loud and vaguely melodic would sound great speeding along Route 66 . |
| 23 | send in two copies of your idea with any forms or leaflets you are introducing or changing . |
| 24 | Only send in three tracks at the most ( naturally your best ) . |
| 25 | Alec moved down two steps and stood . |
| 26 | Sydney : Continuing negative fallout from News Corporation 's slide dragged the All Ordinaries index down 17 points to 1,730.4 . |
| 27 | Sydney : Shares finished marginally weaker but off their lows , with the All Ordinaries index down 3.1 points at 1,772.5 . |
| 28 | Share prices in Hong Kong and Sydney were both knocked by Tokyo 's late sell-off , with the Hang Seng index closing 98.19 lower at 4,729.39 and Sydney 's All Ordinaries index down 9 points at 1454.3 . |
| 29 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 30 | The coffin of 67year-old locksmith Richard Whitelaw was dragged from a flat , bumped down two steps and pulled 15ft into the garden before being torched . |