Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 2 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |
| 3 | The 1972 Local Government Act abolished the eighty-three county boroughs in England and Wales and reduced the fifty-eight county councils to forty-seven , ranging from populations of 110,000 ( Powys ) to 1.5m ( Hampshire ) . |
| 4 | This trademark nicknamed the two cheeses was an acronym for civil clothes nineteen forty one . |
| 5 | Opposite the Cages was what the eagles called the Three Island Pond where ducks and flamingos were kept . |
| 6 | There 's a nice little pub called the Eight Bells in Yardarm Street , running into the square . |
| 7 | There 's one outpost of northern civilization in the heart of the city centre — a fine Sam Smith 's pub called the Three Goats Heads . |
| 8 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 9 | A short passage linked the two rooms together and gave access to the stairway . |
| 10 | Six years separated the two brothers , and although both were fair-haired , Charles Sherman at twenty-one bore the strongest resemblance to the senator . |
| 11 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 12 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 13 | The Mason 's side will rue the day one of their players entered their own penalty area , as the resulting converted spot kick separated the two sides on the final whistle . |
| 14 | Incidentally , most disc manufacturers with double-sided discs called the two sides ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ . |
| 15 | In Galicia a liberal historian of property rights called the 1763 settlement ( which gave tenants such security that the landlords could neither evict nor raise rents ) ‘ an act of sheer expropriation against the aristocracy ’ . |
| 16 | A ceremony at Madrid 's only synagogue marked the 500 years since , on March 31 , 1492 , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave Spanish Jews the choice of conversion to Christianity or expulsion under threat of death . |
| 17 | No 192 Squadron 's ‘ A ’ Flight operated the four Washingtons and these were WZ966 ‘ 55 ’ , WZ967 ‘ 56 ’ , WZ957 ‘ 57 ’ and WW346 , which , unlike the other three , was a conventional bomber . |
| 18 | It is not my intention to argue that villagers confused the two institutions , or that they thought magistrates and demons to be similar types of beings . |
| 19 | The older man regarded the two women expressionlessly for a moment , then stepped forward . |
| 20 | One book called The Four Letter Word contains page after page of white space with four letter words all over it . |
| 21 | The court heard how detectives followed the two men from Oxford to London , and watched them buy drugs , when they returned home , drugs were found in their car . |
| 22 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |