Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 2 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 3 | That is also the basis of the argument that a UK resident taxpayer could not claim back the 35 per cent tax under s687 where the original income derived from a non-UK source and rely on the Inland Revenue to pursue the trustees . |
| 4 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 5 | There were only 500,000 TV sets ( 1957 ( and 50 per cent of Frenchmen could not pick up the one black-and-white channel : but politicians perceived the potential of what was to become — under de Gaulle — a mass medium . |
| 6 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 7 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 8 | A mortar attack 30 minutes earlier forced frightened staff to hurriedly fill in the two tiny holes and run for cover . |