Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) .
2 Teesside Crown Court heard how blonde Julie Spence agreed to four sex sessions with her husband when they split after ten years of marriage .
3 At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many .
4 I drank mint tea in the carpet shops ( and found Stefan Grappelli , Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop 's order book ) .
5 The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December .
6 At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers .
7 Morning and afternoon encircled in one light
8 The highest land is only 2 metres above sea level and even this would be exposed to storm surges if mean sea level rose by 1 metre .
9 Angalo clung with one hand .
10 Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him .
11 In 1987 , 1422 whales were killed , and in 1988 , the toll rose to 1690 pilot whales .
12 An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ .
13 The glasses he was wearing flew off his face ; the bottle of blood crashed against one wall … .
14 In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all .
15 Desperate villagers who searched the area around Cerska on Monday for 21 tonnes of aid parachuted from C-130 cargo planes were reported to have been killed by Serb snipers .
16 Then Jerk came in one night and tightened our chains .
17 The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement .
18 The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed .
19 Undaunted , Athletico played as one man .
20 For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part .
21 By 1761 the artillery consisted of 31 field companies , totalling 3200 officers and men ; the former , unlike their infantry and cavalry colleagues , did not have to purchase their commissions but were appointed and promoted solely on merit , and the British artillery was soon recognised as the best in the world .
22 In 1907 Scott returned to I Tatti where he remained for two years , acting as secretary-librarian to Berenson , by whose intensely aesthetic approach to the study of art he was powerfully influenced .
23 With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly .
24 He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five .
25 He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five .
26 The chief superintendent looked from one sheet to another and then back again , as if there were certain connections that he was looking for and was unable to find .
27 Turnover fell by 11 p.c. to £3.23 billion as trading at six out of the group 's seven divisions experienced downturns .
28 Thank you good morning ladies and gentlemen , turnover grew by five point five per cent during the twenty eight weeks the sixth of November to three hundred and twenty million there 's been no inflation in our selling prices so all of this growth is from increased volumes particularly in upholstery , beds , appliances and Pronto .
29 Molly looked from one Corduroy to another .
30 He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour .
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