Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [num] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The match resulted in a win for Manchester who having batted first & scored 72 dismissed Bolton for a mere 14 runs .
2 Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win .
3 or losing 7–1/7–2 to sheff weds in a mel sterland testimonial ( I think it was for fat mel )
4 Hay & Maddock 93 found joint authorship in only 6% of their sample of thesis-derived research on human geography , which does suggest a different pattern of publication in geography to that in geology .
5 The guilty party here is mathematics as 72 does not divide nicely into 300 nor does 300 divide into either 1270 or 2540 .
6 The Swedes helped themselves in 1648 and Josef II held a number of spectacularly philistine art auctions at the end of the 18C .
7 50g/2oz butter 2 cloves garlic , crushed 6 thick slices of shin of veal , approx 225–275g/8–10oz each 2 × 15ml/tbsp seasoned flour 1 large onion , chopped 3 large carrots , peeled and diced 3 stalks celery , finely sliced 450g/1lb tomatoes , skinned , seeded and chopped 8 halves sun-dried tomatoes , chopped 1 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped rosemary 200ml/8oz/1 cup dry white wine 250ml/10fl oz/1¼ cups boiling vegetable stock , approx salt and pepper
8 Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net .
9 ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight .
10 We were caught and got four strokes each .
11 Andy Watt will be stationed at the Mission Hospital , Manali , Kulu , Himachal , Pradesh , for the rest of the year and has two beat up Dancers which paddlers in the area are welcome to borrow .
12 A new receiver , the RX-360 ( £229.95 ) is rated at 40 watts per channel and has 40 presets for radio stations on AM and FM bands , with full remote control via a Yamaha RS control link .
13 Drawn up and panting on the open track , Engine No.707 and coach 3113 looked black against the swirling snowstorm .
14 It includes schemes to increase the amount of electricity generated through combined heat and power ( CHP — already in operation in some Soviet cities ) , reduce methane leakage from the gas supply network , boost energy efficiency , primarily through improved insulation , and build 1,500 megawatts worth of small power stations based on biomass , wind and hydro-electric generators .
15 POLICE have stopped and searched 9,124 people in Strathclyde during the past three weeks as part of Operation Blade and found 126 carrying knives and 66 other types of weapons .
16 Education was encouraged by the General Education Act of 1870 ; and made compulsory in 1876 up to age 10 and to age 14 according to the Act of 1880 .
17 Elizabeth Arden 's new Ceramide Eyes Time Complex Capsules ( £27.50 for two months ' supply , on sale 3 February ) contain a clear , liquid complex of vitamins E and K , botanical extracts and Ceramide 1 to soothe and smooth the eye area .
18 The Canadians are prominent in the dance section , with O Vertigo Dances and Carbone 14 lining up alongside companies from Africa and Germany .
19 What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river .
20 At British Gas South Western we monitor national weather forecasts and receive four reports each day from the Bristol Weather Centre , and two from Plymouth .
21 this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half
22 Both sides threw the ball about and scored five tries each .
23 The football club will now remove existing terracing and erect three grandstands to meet the Taylor Report demand that grounds be all-seated by August 1994 .
24 Two out of 160 G418-resistant D3 clones were found to have the targeted mutation and clone 515 gave rise to germ-line chimaeras .
25 I then looked through the sight ( of his weapon ) and fired three aimed shots .
26 People do n't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air .
27 I do n't need to dress up and spend thousands to get my picture taken . ’
28 HARPY and TRACE II took the first option .
29 Basic it still is ; even so it does more than many scientific calculators , and release 2 computes faster , has a proper menu structure , EGA colour capability and is generally bullet-proof .
30 And note 62/6/2 emphasises that ‘ the right of a mortgagee to his costs of a redemption or foreclosure suit is a matter of contract and not in the discretion of the court , except where he has ‘ unreasonably instituted or carried on or resisted any proceedings . ’ ’
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