Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not until March 1950 that the British ceased to rank the Middle East equally with Europe , and promised to send two divisions to the continent in the event of war . |
| 32 | Piaget 's sentence completion study involved asking seven-to nine-year-olds to write completions for each of the following written sentence fragments : |
| 33 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 34 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 35 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 36 | The Foreign Office moved to expel 67 Iraqis and eight staff from the Iraqi embassy . |
| 37 | The hearing revealed that Raybestos proposed to dump 400 lbs . |
| 38 | He therefore tried to ride two horses , attempting to pad out Labour 's newly acquired eleventh commandment , ‘ Thou shalt not promote homosexuality ’ , with some points of principle . |
| 39 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 40 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
| 41 | The data analysed represented 65 developments from 54 companies in the four countries . |
| 42 | By 1983 , the EPA had already either approved or proposed to approve 150 bubbles , with a saving to industry of $500 million . |
| 43 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 44 | Daniels proposed to add two forms to the Senior , one at the top and one at the bottom , and to take on another master . |
| 45 | The third stage involved selecting 22 addresses in each polling district . |
| 46 | They helped move three-and-a-half tons of soil into the garden . |
| 47 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
| 48 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 49 | We should not glamorize the overcrowded , insanitary rural cottages — scarcely adequate as holiday homes for a two-child family now — in which parents tried to raise five children , which were so strikingly condemned in Chadwick 's 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes ( Flinn 1965 ) . |
| 50 | Gardner-Medwin proposed screening 18 month old boys who are not walking as an approach to the problem of delayed diagnosis . |
| 51 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 52 | Immacolata tried to refuse one time , pleading her figure ; but Talia , who could eat anything without putting on weight , she was so lithe and quick , tucked in to her heaped cornet , running her tongue happily round the sides to catch the melting drips of rose , green , cream . |
| 53 | This course , modified to take one day , was repeated in January for the officers in charge of Evening Duty and in March for those next in seniority in the evenings . |
| 54 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 55 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 56 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 57 | One of the music schools which Mr Dorman visited had 2,100 pupils . |
| 58 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 59 | German and Austrian police on Dec. 8 reported detaining 16 people alleged to be involved in smuggling radioactive material from the former Soviet Union . |
| 60 | His project , which stretched over 25 years , involved clearing 450 acres of bracken and regenerating heather at a family estate at Ramsgill , Nidderdale , North Yorkshire . |