Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | WORLD heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe has turned down an Pounds 8 million offer to defend his title against Lennox Lewis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Q I am intending to set up a 60″ x 20″ x 20″ aquarium to house fish and inverts . |
| 6 | The meteors that burned out the dinosaurs two hundred million years ago were the gouts of flame and phlegm from Fenna 's nostrils . |
| 7 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned down a Pounds 60,000 offer to pose for Playboy because her bosses would n't let her strip . |
| 8 | WHATEVER anyone might think about the amazing Norman Lamont saga , everyone will be agreed on one point : How can lawyers run up a Pounds 23,000 bill so simply ? |
| 9 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 10 | Let's see what I have in the box — ( bring out the decorations one by one , letting everyone admire them ) . |
| 11 | A stabbing brought in the police one night . |
| 12 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 13 | No shakes and rattles as trams roll back the years Forty-three years after they left , Trevor Bates reports on today 's return of trams to Manchester |
| 14 | Madeleine kept repeating that she 'd get down to hacking back the brambles one of these days but on the other hand she did n't have the time . |
| 15 | This simple method avoids having to laboriously pick up the worms one by one . |
| 16 | Ordered , That Standing Order No. 125A ( Finance and Services Committee ) , agreed to on 18th July in the last Session of Parliament , be amended , in paragraph ( 2 ) , by leaving out the words eight Members ' and inserting the words nine Members ' . |
| 17 | Q I recently set up a 48″ x 12″ x 18″ Mbuna community . |
| 18 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 19 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 20 | She set out the pieces one by one on the counter . |