Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There you are , fifty pound again to start this one . |
| 2 | Fifty pound again to start it . |
| 3 | THE LABOUR conference voted by a 3-1 majority yesterday to reject moves to commit the party to changing the voting system at parliamentary elections . |
| 4 | Terms control was originally introduced in the 1939–45 war primarily to stop excessive additions to the price of goods masquerading as ‘ credit charges ’ . |
| 5 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton will announce a $500 billion programme today to stimulate the American economy , cut the US government deficit , and create half a million jobs . |
| 7 | He started his ten day fast to try to get his Czech nationality papers back so he can visit his homeland . |
| 8 | A strong interaction , on the other hand , allows one component actively to direct , or guide a second component in the pursuit of a particular hypothesis . |
| 9 | He planted one foot carefully to stop the door being swung in his face and took a breath of air that was wrongly warm and sour . |
| 10 | I give you one bio-day exactly to make contact with me and give me your answer . ’ |
| 11 | Within the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) , the supporters of the " socialism and republic " faction led by Jean-Pierre Chevènement ( who resigned as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 — see p. 37941 ) refused to back presidential policy on the Gulf at a meeting of PS officials on Feb. 2 , and attacked the Feb. 1 decision temporarily to let US B-52 bombers overfly the country . |
| 12 | When there was prima facie evidence of an airline cutting the price on one route simply to take a competitor out of the market , then there should be machinery compelling that airline to cut prices on all its other routes . |
| 13 | He opened one locker only to see its contents cascade out , repeatedly bashing the head of the man sitting under it like a scene from a Laurel and Hardy film . |
| 14 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 15 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 16 | Each member has one democratically elected representative on the board , who , in turn , has one vote either to admit or reject new members . |
| 17 | At the end of each game they had one chance and one chance only to answer the riddle they had been set . |
| 18 | Therefore , with a half to 1 minute still to run we should be able to establish visual contact . |
| 19 | Most remarkable of all , Karl , Barth , having been unable to serve as an observer , later published his reflections ( 1967 , 1969 ) , asking himself such questions as ‘ How would things look if Rome ( without ceasing to be Rome ) were one day simply to overtake us and place us in the shadows , so far as the renewing of the church through the Word and Spirit of the gospel is concerned ? ’ |
| 20 | He came one day softly to see Cley , to discuss with him whether to ban , as it was in his power to do , a new play entitled Forgotten Robe , Abyss , Glitter . |
| 21 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 22 | One button only to undo , sewn up with shabby thread . |
| 23 | People with loadsamoney — ’ he said it as one word just to prove he had learned something living in London — ‘ buy them to play with and throw them away when they 're bored with ‘ em . |
| 24 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 25 | It is often sufficient to break the homophony in one voice only to give this added touch of interest . |
| 26 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 27 | He was pleased by the progress of the flotation : SUPPLYKITS was thriving ; KITS had sacrificed its 1966 profit only to facilitate the other company 's expansion . |
| 28 | The one thing never to do if your dog starts to stray from you is to chase off after it . |
| 29 | He slipped one hand forward to restrain hers even before she 'd started to lift panicked fingers to her scalp . |
| 30 | A more insidious appeal to the national interest on behalf of the trade came from those controversialists who appeared to concede much of the abolitionists ' case with one hand only to withdraw it with the other . |