Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 2 | In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole . |
| 3 | During a recent promotion , the Great Central Railway has undertaken the 1992 visitors survey and questionnaires were given to visitors and passengers arrival with a closing date of August 7 . |
| 4 | Indeed , the magazine took the opportunity to address the whole post-1960 transformation : " The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation — change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras . |
| 5 | The persistence of this balance has placed the two sides in positions in which each is seeking something apparently unattainable . |
| 6 | The water from two rivers which sweep through the estate was harnessed to provide the five lakes strategically placed around the course . |
| 7 | Perhaps the last word should be given to Caroline Moorehead , who has edited the eight volumes of Dame Freya 's letters and deserves to be listened to . |
| 8 | If you want to graft the two sets ( front and back ) of stitches together then each set of shoulder stitches can be run off on to waste yarn and you are left with three separate groups of stitches all on waste yarn . |
| 9 | A mystery explosion has trapped the four time-travellers inside the TARDIS . |
| 10 | It said that the move is not expected to impact the 1,100 employees that Sun has in the state . |
| 11 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 12 | A turbulent day in the City has seen the hundred shares index closing down fifty-four point six at twenty-three eleven point one . |
| 13 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 14 | Perhaps the child has said the two syllables to herself — dance + ing — and written them down , rather than visualising the complete word . |
| 15 | In the period since his appointment , he has merged the two companies , their products and the sales force into the single organisation that is in operation today . |
| 16 | Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps . |
| 17 | To awake from its economic nightmare , the Soviet Union needs to create the three planks on which all successful capitalist nations are founded : a stable macroeconomic environment , private ownership of capital and competitive markets undistorted by government controls . |
| 18 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 19 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 20 | Prosecuting counsel John Nutting has alleged the two men , who were travelling in a red Sierra , were stopped in June last year on the A64 Leeds-York road , North Yorkshire , by Special Constable Glenn Goodman and Pc Alexander Kelly . |
| 21 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 22 | Buster Watson was expected to win the 100 metres , but I came through and clocked 10.4 seconds for a personal best and a county record , which still stands . |
| 23 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 24 | Thinking it meant the arrival of a new doctor , she stopped to read the two names on it . |
| 25 | Libya has arrested the two men named by the Scottish Lord Advocate last November … and begun a judicial investigation of its own . |
| 26 | To help endow our cities and regions with facilities to enhance the celebration of United Kingdom 2000 , such as the sporting facilities Manchester would need to host the 2000 Olympics . |
| 27 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 28 | More importantly , it has brought the two companies close to the brink of financial disaster . |
| 29 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has appointed the eight members of the schoolteachers ' review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 30 | Fold the excess lining pastry over the lid and press to seal the two layers of pastry together . |