Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 2 | In elections to rural councils independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats and 80 per cent of mayorships . |
| 3 | He himself invented the name , and also edited hundreds of the titles , from Atomic Physics and Swahili , from Practical Concreting to Budgerigars and Canasta . |
| 4 | Place six of the canes in the base holes and fit the roof on top so that it sits on top of the cake . |
| 5 | The Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , failed to overturn a magistrate 's decision not to prosecute six of the officers , charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 7 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |
| 8 | I will now discuss three of the cases of allegedly fertile she-mules , bearing in mind that no serological or chromosomal analysis was done , they must each be regarded as ‘ anecdotal ’ . |
| 9 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |
| 10 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 11 | Simon Thelwell scored a hat-trick for Hollywood Rivacre in their 6-0 win over Bull Wanderers and in division three , Halfway House TTS had a three-goal star in Graeme Leadbetter when they drew 4-4 with The Gunners . |
| 12 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 13 | They could well win one of the cups . |
| 14 | Now , in the early morning privacy of the bathroom , Matilda unscrewed the cap of her father 's OIL OF VIOLETS and tipped three-quarters of the contents down the drain . |
| 15 | ‘ Americans are rich , ’ objected one of the children . |
| 16 | If you start to bleed , send one of the lads around for me , OK ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Send one of the servants for Edward Morris , ’ he said , ‘ and for a solicitor , an honest one . ’ |
| 18 | It may suit one of the parties at the time of the reference to exploit the uncertainty created by poor drafting , either by delaying matters by a construction summons ( see 8.17.7 ) or by insisting on a particular definition of the issue which is to that party 's advantage . |
| 19 | However , difficulties may arise if a strict time limit is set for the publication of the decision , and the decision is published after it has expired : it may suit one of the parties to refuse to accept it on that ground . |
| 20 | Explaining one of the sections of their manifesto in the preface to the exhibition at Bernheim 's , the Futurists , now aware of Cubist painting , talked for the first time of ‘ battles of planes ’ ; and Boccioni summarizes most concisely the debt of Futurism to Cubism when in Pittura Scultura Futuriste , published in 1914 , he wrote under the heading ‘ Compenetrazione dei Piani ’ : ‘ It is the pictorial method of rendering movement in a painting , making the surrounding objects fuse with the structure of the object placed in their midst ’ . |
| 21 | I want one of the boys to run an errand for me . |
| 22 | The trees are going to be placed directly on top of the large trees on the background , since I want one of the actors to move behind them , as you will see later . |
| 23 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought you 'd like to meet one of the natives , in case you have n't already . |
| 25 | One day , returning from doing some business with a farmer , he happened to meet one of the dairymaids from Talbothays , Izz Huett . |
| 26 | She went over and tried one of the handles , but the cabinet was locked . |
| 27 | With an eye on the corridor outside , I tried one of the latches and was n't surprised to find it locked . |
| 28 | A local charity worker visited one of the hostels and found four old men sleeping in a basement " using a large baked bean tin as a chamber pot " . |
| 29 | ‘ Hel lo ! ’ squeaks one of the ladies ' hats suddenly — and there are the Bernsteins . |
| 30 | ‘ Too close to base ? ’ ventured one of the men . |