Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] with [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Mrs Mac Donald , delicately checking with one finger that her hat was still on straight . |
| 2 | He was eventually caught with three laps left and as the pack came past him he unfortunately caught the heels of another member of England 's Commonwealth Games team , Ikem Billy , who dropped out . |
| 3 | Bob Swatman , 73 , branch chairman , of Low Lane , Middlesbrough , had to wait 17 hours on the beach before he was eventually evacuated with 65 others by a fishing boat which landed at Margate Pier . |
| 4 | The micellar structures are dynamic and constantly colliding with one another , exchanging contents . |
| 5 | ‘ The tenants will paint in a proper and workmanlike manner all the outside wood , iron and stucco or cementwork of the said subjects and all other exterior parts as might properly require to be so painted with three coats at least of good oil and white lead paint … . ’ |
| 6 | Presumably most people 's dreams were not interpreted as being messages from the deities , as even Gilgamesh was only favoured with two or three of these in his lifetime . |
| 7 | One American war correspondent wrote of this incessant traffic ; ‘ The one sight of the battle of Verdun that will always live in my memory is that of the snow-covered and ice-coated road … constantly filled with two columns of trucks … |
| 8 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 9 | Where a wider space is available beside the house , you can put up a wider , detached garage , perhaps sited with one wall on the boundary of your property , to leave a pathway between it and the house . |
| 10 | I have asked several of the greatest and best horticulturists , both in England and America , what author and what book they had found and believed to be the best in horticulture … they have all answered with one mouth , Miller 's Garden Dictionary . |
| 11 | There was a shortage of Brownings , and his little flotilla of airborne cavaliers in their Supermarine Spitfire MK 1s , powered by 1,030 horsepower Merlin II engines , were only armed with four machine guns each . |
| 12 | She had to wear a brace for many years before she was well enough to walk with two sticks , and I still carry in my mind the picture of her trying to walk around the room and on the landing , hobbling in her iron braces . |
| 13 | The principle underlying this treatment method is the certainty that the central nervous system is capable of recovering function despite being damaged : any lesion in the brain , such as a blood clot , only interferes with one part of the brain , while other parts of the brain , plus the spinal cord , are left undamaged . |
| 14 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 15 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 16 | When asked to find similar patterns for other numbers , only seven per cent of boys did so compared with 28 per cent of the girls . |
| 17 | For example , asked to draw accurately a triangle with all the sides 6 cm long , 52 per cent of the boys were judged to have done so compared with 30 per cent of the girls . |
| 18 | Almost half of women aged 65 + ( 45 per cent ) live alone compared with 17 per cent of males . |
| 19 | She was merely coping with one thing after another , not achieving . |
| 20 | Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others . |
| 21 | Millns , who has signed a new five-year contract at Grace Road , was under scrutiny by England manager Micky Stewart during a victory over Essex before a foot injury struck him down , but he can not have done his claims much harm with 5 for 67 to make him — at that time — the country 's leading wicket-taker . |
| 22 | He 's only charged with one offence of criminal deception at the moment . |
| 23 | He 's only charged with one offence of criminal deception at the moment . |
| 24 | So stay with one partner , or use a condom — carefully — every time — to protect against AIDS whatever your contraceptive |
| 25 | With Global Strategy you can spread your investment monies widely , if you wish , whilst still only dealing with one fund manager . |
| 26 | A warden can perhaps cope with one or two dementia sufferers . |
| 27 | Success swiftly followed with two tour titles , the second in the Dutch Open four years ago . |
| 28 | It 's not unusual to find 30 or more entrance holes all associated with one colony . |
| 29 | ‘ They 'll only play with four . |
| 30 | The separate maple fingerboard on the SJ is nicely finished with 22 well seated frets , of the medium to chunky variety . |