Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] six [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 2 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 3 | and its still looking good for the promotion play-offs … only Tranmere have a realistic chance of catching the top six teams … |
| 4 | ( I have included the concluding six words , although the need for them was not explored in argument , since without them the position would be frozen as it was in 1987 , which would be absurd . ) |
| 5 | Forget the last six months , admit it 's been more like a year , remove yourself from the desperate turns on the rack of rejection … at least you know how to love . |
| 6 | Unless you happen to be a keen follower of American football , you are more likely to be able to answer the first six questions than the last two . |
| 7 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 8 | Reluctantly , after supper , Clare mounted the extra six stairs to Carolyn 's room . |
| 9 | Alan Hickey , Peter Heffer , Green , Robin Garton , Mandy Welham and Colin Cooper filled the final six places . |
| 10 | Which has now run for five years and could continue for another twelve to fifteen years , until he 's supplied the remaining six albums . |
| 11 | When I read the first six words of that I thought , good Lord , we 're going to get a bit of policy here and but no , no , none of it . |
| 12 | The only way to cover the other six ricks was by thatching them with straw , and this was a long and difficult job to do alone . |
| 13 | Three new Stock Exchange money brokers ( SEMBs ) joined the original six SEMBs to lend stocks and finance to GEMMs , and six inter-dealer brokers ( IDBs ) were set up to maintain an anonymous transactions service between GEMMs . |
| 14 | I have already quoted Mrs in her statement brackets C forty eight , saying although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept the last six years have taken their toll on us both and in reality it 's unlikely that we will continue to be able to provide the same level of care and outside is required , unquote . |
| 15 | The country was spared the follies that all too often accompany the first six months of a new government while tyro-ministers clamber up what the Civil Service likes to call their learning-curve . |
| 16 | Unless omissions or combinations can be justified the method should use the basic six stages described at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 17 | I mean , has Jim Bob really spent the last six months watching cable TV ? |
| 18 | A COWBOY who spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair got his dying wish , to be buried standing up with his boots on . |
| 19 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 20 | He spent the next six months travelling . |
| 21 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 22 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 23 | Lothar and Charles spent the next six weeks in manoeuvre and countermanoeuvre . |
| 24 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 25 | By 1983 , he was in charge of the Scotland B team and on the way to forging that illustrious partnership with Jim Telfer which brought a second Grand Slam in 1990 even sweeter than the French game which settled the first six years before . |
| 26 | Smith 's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot . |
| 27 | But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station . |
| 28 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 29 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 30 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |