Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war he rejoined Robertson Hare for two more Ben Travers farces , Outrageous Fortune ( 1947 ) and Wild Horses ( 1952 ) , but though the heyday of the Aldwych farces was long gone , Lynn refused to give in to the changes of theatrical fashion . |
| 2 | I awoke at the sounding of five o'clock reveille , shivering in the bitter cold . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 4 | This is reflected in the marketing statistics , which show for example , that in the United States in 1976 about $100 billion were spent on personal selling compared with $33 billion on advertising . |
| 5 | What you are suggesting then is that the time should be extended from five o'clock Friday to five o'clock Monday , er but that er there should be a period of two weeks after that er to for whichever council or councils are going to respond , for them to make . |
| 6 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 7 | On Thursday , December 17 in Room 24 , Alex Seago will talk on ‘ Peter Blake : An English Pop Artist ’ ; Friday 18 in the Lower Galleries at 1 pm Charles Hustwick will talk on ‘ Beardsley to Bomberg : British Drawings and Watercolours ’ , on Saturday December 19 in the Auditorium at 1 pm Laurence Bradbury will talk about ‘ Peter Blake : original Pop ’ ; Sunday December 20 at 2.30 pm in the Auditorium , Laurence Bradbury will talk on ‘ Ivon Hitchens : natural Abstraction ’ , and on Sunday December 27 at 2.30 in the Auditorium , Laurence Bradbury will talk about ‘ A Sequence of 20th Century ‘ Isms ’ , Lectures are free and no prior booking is required . |
| 8 | B & b for two around £50 ( 010 33 99 89 60 55 ) . |
| 9 | The Holiday Inn Garden Court has b & b for two around £50 , but rooms will accommodate up to four . |
| 10 | The Hotel Ambassadeur at Wapenplein 8A , Ostend is comfortable and friendly : b & b for two around £43 ( 010 32 59 70 09 41 ) . |
| 11 | B & b for two around £36 ( 010 33 21 06 05 36 ) . |
| 12 | By February of 1825 neither Taylor 's nor Fleming 's Levels had " struck-home " and Barratt , starting now to have doubts about the latter , suspended driving until the elusive vein was cut in Taylor 's , and when doing so , perhaps , shedding some light on the matter . |
| 13 | Russia froze relations with Yugoslavia on July 17 and the Supreme Soviet approved the deployment of 400 more UN troops from Russia . |
| 14 | The series of marked themes in the above extract from A Hero from Zero basically foreground temporal sequence as the writer 's point of departure . |
| 15 | By Aug. 13 a UNHCR representative was seeking to contact the Bosnian Serb military leadership to obtain the lifting of a siege on four predominantly Croat towns — Prijedor , Sanski-most , Bosanka-Krupa and Bosanki-Petrovac — in north-west Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 16 | In 1968 , ‘ Martin 's Bones Number 2 ’ , ( 1961 ) a canvas of two side-by-side columns of 10 rectangular shapes was included in the exhibition , The Art of the Real , at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . |
| 17 | Following the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC Julius Caesar 's great-nephew and heir , Octavian , became master of the Mediterranean world . |
| 18 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 19 | In the years since 1986 both sectors have increased their intakes . |
| 20 | For the period since 1981 both sets have similar problems but advances in methodology , especially in handling migration , make them more useful than in the past . |
| 21 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |
| 22 | The result was that in the long Russo-Swedish conflict of 1700–21 both combatants endured sacrifices surpassing those of any Western country in the War of the Spanish Succession , while Russia 's wars with the Ottoman Empire were fought almost in the spirit of a crusade . |
| 23 | Romania was not only dotted with scarcely visited residences , each filled with furniture in gilded styles that the reigns of twenty more Louis XIV's could not have conjured up . |
| 24 | He had made his name with two earlier Mozart productions at the Kroll Opera in Berlin with Klemperer . |
| 25 | In the UK in 1989 under 1% of the shares traded on the UK stock market were part of an index arbitrage transaction , while the corresponding figure for the NYSE for the period from July to December 1989 was about 5% ( Quality of Markets Unit , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 27 | MENINGITIS killed a woman of 20 just hours after she was discharged from hospital . |
| 28 | The missile programme had been initiated jointly with Egypt in 1982 following Argentina 's defeat by the United Kingdom in the Falklands war , and had been financed partly by Iraq . |
| 29 | But captain Graham Gooch waited almost 60 hours before phoning with the bad news at 9.30 yesterday morning . |
| 30 | ‘ No. ’ 'Then why do n't you come down to the marina at five tomorrow morning . |