Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you can be confident that no hairy-nosed wombat has lost sleep over the fact that its species got only one vote . |
| 2 | Originally , he planned only one show but demand was so high for tickets that an extra night was added to the tour . |
| 3 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 4 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 5 | Mosley in his autobiography made only one reference to Joyce , his sometime Chief of Propaganda , as a deserter and as one who was ‘ intensely vain ; a quite common foible in very small men . ’ |
| 6 | He disliked the Church Assembly ( which was the forerunner of the General Synod ) and made only one speech there while he was Bishop of Durham , against the idea of recruiting people to come and be priests . |
| 7 | Between 1980 and 1990 Kenya sold only one state enterprise , despite endless promises to sell more . |
| 8 | A straw poll covering 40 London restaurants and two large liquor-store chains unearthed only one outlet not intending to re-order Perrier when it becomes available again . |
| 9 | To all who thought as Joyce did , the Munich crisis of 1938 had posed a problem of conscience that admitted only one solution . |
| 10 | It 's a Fool 's Paradise to think that a ruck will be won , the ball moved down one channel , another ruck won , over to another channel and then finally over the try-line . |
| 11 | It is a matter of public record that when a certain accident occurred only one day after the political pendulum had swung over and a new administration had taken office , an irate member of parliament demanded to know why the government had not taken steps to prevent such things taking place . |
| 12 | He found only one instance of four points aligning and none of five . |
| 13 | The soldiers forced their way in , but found only one orang-utan — the difficult-to-manage Charlie , whom they took away . |
| 14 | Waterloo Boy was travelling best of all three out , but found only one pace as the two principals slogged it out up front . |
| 15 | They found only one parent objected to schools dealing with values , as this would harm academic work . |
| 16 | But if the breadhead was to walk away and tell me later that he found only one packet , what would I say ? |
| 17 | A survey of Oxfordshire in 1982 found only 15 breeding pairs of redshank , compared to 112 pairs in a comparable survey in 1939 . |
| 18 | Midnight Air , yesterday 's 9–4 favourite , failed to accelerate and beat only one home , while Skimble ( seventh ) led but quickly petered out ; Red Slippers , too , disappointed , finishing sixth . |
| 19 | Leaving aside food , drink and tobacco , industrial prices rose only 2.9 p.c. over the year and 0.6 p.c. in the last three months . |
| 20 | Until then all cylinders had one hundred ‘ lines per inch ’ ; that is , the cylinder rotated one hundred times while the mouthpiece moved along one inch . |
| 21 | The government contributed just eighteen point two percent so the bulk of our expenditure was born by local people directly . |
| 22 | Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died . |
| 23 | The 22-year-old , who was five feet two inches tall and weighed just six stone , disappeared on January 8 after leaving the mobile home she shared with her boyfriend near the Hythe in Colchester . |
| 24 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 25 | After the illness , Ian weighed just three stone . |
| 26 | Richard Jones 's comparison experiment , briefly reported above , showed that users felt lost if they moved just one step from their original searches by choosing to " look at books classified near this one " , although the dialogue would appear to be a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity ( Figures 5.6 and 5.7 ) . |
| 27 | Digging through the literary evidence the biblical detectives found not one set of fingerprints but at least four . |
| 28 | Three deliberately late and confusing warnings mentioned just one bomb . |
| 29 | She 'd been robbed of words , had no speech to tell him to stop this glorious torture , could only groan deep in her throat as his questing fingers flickered over one nipple , bringing it to prominent life even through the material of her leotard . |
| 30 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |