Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some policemen from Cambridge County and they were handpicked , two brothers came among that little group , and they each weighed over twenty stone , these two brothers , and of course everybody referred to them , as the two tinies . |
| 2 | Chester by 1780 had only one packhorse service , to North Wales , while it had wagon and coach services to a large number of English towns . |
| 3 | The larger had only one arm , and a head which was the wrong size and shape . |
| 4 | But his 75 contained just one boundary and in all there were just six fours in the innings as Surrey crawled to a paltry 168 all out in 49 of the allotted 50 overs . |
| 5 | The year 1858 witnessed about 100 peasant disturbances in Estonia , almost as many as the 123 which , according to one estimate , took place in all the Russian provinces of the empire put together . |
| 6 | A survey of Oxfordshire in 1982 found only 15 breeding pairs of redshank , compared to 112 pairs in a comparable survey in 1939 . |
| 7 | The considerable success of these young , enthusiastic and high quality tutors in Norfolk laid the foundation for the District 's future activity in the county which , when Jacques was appointed in 1935 had only one class , a Tutorial in Norwich . |
| 8 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
| 9 | That left only one shot . |
| 10 | But that left only one alternative — that fitzAlan was beginning to trust her . |
| 11 | Retiring after ten years with the company was Joe Lofthouse , while the six others each had over forty year 's service demonstrating a tremendous loyalty . |
| 12 | A survey of the breeding population between 1965 and 1967 recorded about 250 breeding pairs , mainly distributed in coastal marshes and the permanent grasslands of the river valleys and levels , but with some pairs scattered in small areas of marsh in the interior . |