Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 2 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned down a Pounds 60,000 offer to pose for Playboy because her bosses would n't let her strip . |
| 3 | My father 's father , a soldier in the Black Watch , had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin . |
| 4 | But Smith , who turned down a £1 million offer for Whittingham from Wimbledon earlier this year , said : ‘ He 's not for sale and that 's that . ’ |
| 5 | It is easy to blast down a grade 5 river without much skill . |
| 6 | He handed in a nine-over-par 81 and only two players , the Dane , Steen Tinning , and Irishman Philip Walton , who had a 9 at the twelfth , had a worse return . |
| 7 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 8 | DANIEL SILVA , who numbers Nigel Mansell among his sponsors , became the first Portuguese player to win on tour when he handed in a closing 73 to finish two shots clear of Chris Moody in the Jersey European Airways Open . |
| 9 | Italian fine chemicals brought in a L 3 500 000m turnover in 1990 , according to Federchimica , the Italian chemical industry federation . |
| 10 | We edge up a small re-entrant to the top of a ridge , while the second aircraft creeps along a woodline 200 metres to the left . |
| 11 | I used to love riding , but I went over a jump seven years ago and the horse stopped , but I kept on going , and I fractured my back , so I thought , I 'm too old for that . |
| 12 | Section C is taking the basic feel from A and making it a little busier ( this is a good technique to use over a middle 8 section in order to build it dynamically , but not lose the original direction for the song ) ; it then repeats to A and goes to the coda . |
| 13 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 14 | We looked at things like how to abseil off a cliff hundreds of feet high , while protecting the person you are guiding at all times . |
| 15 | Think of jumping off a platform 3 miles up in the sky , dropping to earth at 120 mph and all the way down , performing the spectacular . |
| 16 | The SparKit-40/Mbus manufacturing kit reportedly includes manufacturing diagnostics and everything a cloner needs to knock off a Sparcstation 2 compatible for $10,000 . |
| 17 | Rob is full of stories and tales of fish landed and fish lost : a salmon of at least 30lb , lost in Madman Pool , the biggest fish Rob ever hooked ; a fresh-run 12lb salmon , from Otter Pool , taken on a size 10 Peter Ross and a nine-foot Hardy Perfection rod : ‘ Did n't do the rod much good . ’ |
| 18 | There will be a competition between the two gates to process this information and one output will take on a Logic 1 state before the other . |
| 19 | Come on a Club 18–30 holiday and there 's every chance it will do you the world of good . |
| 20 | Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds . |
| 21 | The Bank of England assumed ownership of JMB and put up a £75 million indemnity to cover claims and a £100 million loan to strengthen JMB 's balance sheet . |
| 22 | The FEB will try to build up a £10 million fund to create companies that can develop and licence pharmaceutical products . |
| 23 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 24 | BNFL is to set up a £2.5 million world class research institute in cumbria to undertake environmental and occupational studies . |
| 25 | Q I recently set up a 48″ x 12″ x 18″ Mbuna community . |
| 26 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 27 | Q. I am planning to set up a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and two wet/dry trickle filters , with hopefully a home-made filter , using syphons and valves . |
| 28 | Fred Finn , who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world 's most travelled person , has clocked up a mind-boggling ten million miles since he started travelling on business , back in 1958 — and that includes no fewer than 687 flights on Concorde . |
| 29 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 30 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |