Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 2 | In Northamptonshire , the NCC is opposing Kettering District Council 's plans to build Cransley Lodge , a village planned to include 750 houses by 1997 . |
| 3 | We planned to include 10 plants from each collection in the bank , enough to offset the risk of trees dying through disease or neglect , while keeping the overall area within manageable limits . |
| 4 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 5 | They recommended using three modes , as in CSE , and a single grading system , though with special papers in some subjects for pupils of low or high ability . |
| 6 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 7 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 8 | But the operation , involved keeping thirty officers on standby , , including undercover officers and traffic patrols , was expensive … thirty thousand has been spent in overtime alone … so the operation was scaled down … again the displays started … again the Police moved in … |
| 9 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |
| 10 | The treatment involved walking three times round the shore and then departing , without looking back . |
| 11 | ‘ Between 1964 and 1970 the Labour government tried to serve two masters . |
| 12 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 13 | Together they helped attract 25,000 visitors last year . |
| 14 | The company tried to sack 1300 workers , including 300 union leaders , for ‘ sabotage ’ . |
| 15 | An entire production of Strauss 's ‘ Ariadne Auf Naxos ’ had to be cancelled in Rome last month when the management tried to fire seven members of the orchestra and three dancers . |
| 16 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 17 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 18 | I explain that Tod Richardson tried to do two jobs at once : one , have his boys reinforce the message about the ten thousand debt , and two , have another crew search the house . |
| 19 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 20 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 21 | CW reported spending 2 days per week on user support in February and March , and stressed need for action . |
| 22 | Her Ladyship promised to build seven cottages at the old forge at a rental of seven per cent , per annum , of the outlay . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Piaget 's sentence completion study involved asking seven-to nine-year-olds to write completions for each of the following written sentence fragments : |
| 25 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 26 | In 1987 AMV invested in McBain Noel-Johnson , a design and advertising agency which Baulk helped found 20 years ago . |
| 27 | The Foreign Office moved to expel 67 Iraqis and eight staff from the Iraqi embassy . |
| 28 | The hearing revealed that Raybestos proposed to dump 400 lbs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |