Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money at short notice is money lent for up to fourteen days . |
| 2 | VIOLENCE and SEX crimes increased by up to 3.6 per cent , BURGLARY rose by up to 2.8 per cent and CRIMINAL DAMAGE by up to 3.3 per cent . |
| 3 | One of the little maps in the book shows the Isle of Wight with some towns round the Isle of Wight , and it said Poole so she said Poole , she said the boat sailed from out of France ? |
| 4 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 5 | Selected lines reducved by up to 50 per cent with further reductions later in the sale . |
| 6 | As he drew her to the canal 's edge a gondola slid from out of the shadows . |
| 7 | John Stevenson drove at up to 90mph in areas where speed limits were imposed , the court heard . |
| 8 | Government stocks fell by up to £¼ . |
| 9 | Control panels bristled with up to thirty-five switches and buttons as if the housewife-technologist required the skills of an airline pilot . |
| 10 | The name came from out of his dreams , but he could make nothing of it . |
| 11 | At weekends people came from up to fifty miles around . |
| 12 | But , before he had the chance to complete the sentence , a swarm of people came from out of the birch-trees and Aziz and Hasan disappeared into them . |
| 13 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 14 | Now it is to be sold , along with snaps of the late Mirror newspaper tycoon with Ronald Reagan valued at up to £300 . |
| 15 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 16 | Then the burning man came from out of nowhere and took her down . |
| 17 | A voice came from out of the dark depths of the cage to his right . |
| 18 | THE OZONE layer above Europe thinned by up to 18 per cent this winter because of pollution from industrial gases , a 17-nation study reported yesterday . |
| 19 | The effect of such a warrant is to keep the suspect incarcerated for up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 20 | Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation continued for up to 30 Ma after the emplacement of the intrusions at about 400 Ma . |
| 21 | Reports spoke of up to 13 deaths . |
| 22 | Hundreds of Trekkies queued for up to three hours to spend what for them was an almost perfect day at the cinema . |