Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | Now driving down the E 35 from Offenburg . |
| 3 | All dealers who had written six on their paper would scream " Yeah " and would flick down the No. 6 switch on their phones , lighting up the panel . |
| 4 | Use the patterns to write down the A three . |
| 5 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 6 | They taped off an area one hundred yards in diameter round the scene of the explosion — it turned out to be overkill . |
| 7 | In February 1960 , the Cabinet agreed to write off the £60 million already spent so far on Blue Streak , and to seek an alternative delivery system for British nuclear warheads . |
| 8 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |
| 9 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 10 | Mr Clinton will scale back the $12 billion he hopes to raise from the tax over the next five years by between a third and two-thirds . |
| 11 | RAUNCHY EX-MODEL , 17 YEARS , looking for a gorgeous , mad lad who enjoys a good laugh and good dance at a ’ wild ’ club ’ So how about checking out a club one night in Nottingham/Derby/Leicester area followed by ’ a coffee ’ ! ' |
| 12 | So I thought perhaps someone was playing a joke on me for , for a television show what Bobby Vinton would do if he found out a number one record in England . |
| 13 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 14 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 15 | WORLD heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe has turned down an Pounds 8 million offer to defend his title against Lennox Lewis . |
| 16 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 17 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 18 | break down the probe 58 |
| 19 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 20 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 21 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 22 | something just approaching from the south two thousand feet one zero one niner , and now turning eastbound er , via to pick up the M twenty five clockwise . |
| 23 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 24 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 25 | Q. I am planning to set up a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and two wet/dry trickle filters , with hopefully a home-made filter , using syphons and valves . |
| 26 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 27 | BNFL is to set up a £2.5 million world class research institute in cumbria to undertake environmental and occupational studies . |
| 28 | Q I am intending to set up a 60″ x 20″ x 20″ aquarium to house fish and inverts . |
| 29 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 30 | Now the reason for the five thousand reduction there is that there is traffic or there was traffic that previously er came up the A sixty one but then went along Follyfoot Road which is the road you 'll see on the plan which parallels the southern bypass , and that is why up that very short section er there was this reduction er which was heading for points to the east , which clearly went on then to the southern bypass . |