Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They taped off an area one hundred yards in diameter round the scene of the explosion — it turned out to be overkill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ! ' |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | break down the probe 58 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 13 | John is quite a character and loves his role which includes shouting out the news four times a day . |
| 14 | went in there with a twenty cigarette box erm two twenty cigarette boxes yeah ? like when you see cigarette and they pull out their fag , have you got a cigarette and hold out the box forty two cigarettes . |
| 15 | He handed in a nine-over-par 81 and only two players , the Dane , Steen Tinning , and Irishman Philip Walton , who had a 9 at the twelfth , had a worse return . |
| 16 | DANIEL SILVA , who numbers Nigel Mansell among his sponsors , became the first Portuguese player to win on tour when he handed in a closing 73 to finish two shots clear of Chris Moody in the Jersey European Airways Open . |
| 17 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 18 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 19 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 20 | In his 22 years in the ring , Chiyonofuji racked up a record 1,045 wins and 31 Emperor 's Cups — just one short of the record held by his celebrated predecessor , Taiho . |
| 21 | Jo Lawton checks out the EPL 4300 and smooths out the bumps |
| 22 | Last season the Nicholson yard turned out a record 100 winners … so is the pressure on to better that this time around |
| 23 | The former England centre half turned out a record 629 league games for Don Revie 's brilliant Leeds side — and now masterminds the campaigns of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 24 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 25 | I am sure that the House can imagine the feelings of someone who hangs out the washing one sunny morning only to find , on going to collect it three or four hours later , that it is full of holes caused by the soot deposits coming out of the hospital chimney . |
| 26 | Benjamin Laird , chairman of Hallgarth 's governors , said several measures had been taken to weed out the culprits , but admitted : ‘ We will never wipe out the problem 100 per cent . |
| 27 | I can run around a pitch 25 times , no problem . |
| 28 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 29 | On the television screen , we would see the moving scanner building up a picture 25 times each second . |
| 30 | It is easy to blast down a grade 5 river without much skill . |