Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house called Old Ashfield contained seventeen rooms above ground and a labyrinth of cellars built around an ancient underground well . |
| 2 | Old Mosse saved three people from a burning house in the Blitz but was a thieving rat otherwise . |
| 3 | Just get him talking , and then listen , really listen , while old Eddy disinterred one man 's life from the dust of time , and put it together again before his eyes . |
| 4 | Fact File Flights : British Airways and British Midland operate seven flights a day from Heathrow to Belfast International Airport ; for example BA early saver return £85 ( 01-897 4000 ) . |
| 5 | In its hey-day Snaith had twelve pubs and four tailors , and although there is no tailor and the pubs are reduced to five , it is still a busy little shopping centre . |
| 6 | Joanne Lockyer has hunted day and night since 16-year-old Keith vanished four days before Christmas from outside a south London nightclub . |
| 7 | The following year , despite the midnight activities of ‘ the meaner sort of Burwell ’ and other villages , he completed the New Bedford , or Hundred Foot , river , parallel to the Old Bedford built fourteen years before . |
| 8 | Thirty-three bored and idle men from Rathcoole and nearby Carrickfergus took two minibuses and a taxi and drove to north Antrim for a pub crawl in districts where the writ of the Central Cc.ordinating Committee was not observed . |
| 9 | The 35-year-old was dragged along the side of his police van by a stolen Toyota carrying two men in ski masks . |
| 10 | The standard SL has three drawbacks : price , weight and size . |
| 11 | Founded in 1983 , privately-held BBC has 15 employees , claims some 20,000 users of its solutions worldwide and expects to do around $2.5m this year . |
| 12 | MAYON volcano in the central Philippines erupted 26 times yesterday , forcing thousands of villagers to flee to evacuation centres already teeming with refugees . |
| 13 | 37 The front of Projecta 's casket : the seated Projecta receives two attendants , who bring a casket and a mirror while Projecta perfumes her hair . |
| 14 | Yorkshire-born George waited 25 years for his first classic win on User Friendly at Epsom in June . |
| 15 | I suppose when he is fit Wilko has 3 choices . |
| 16 | Bell Atlantic , another of the Baby Bells , is working with two cable-television companies to send voice and video across its fibre-optic lines in New Jersey ; in February Southwestern Bell bought two cable systems in suburban Washington , DC , for $150m . |
| 17 | With 10 moves to the time-control Yusupov had six minutes to Karpov 's four . |
| 18 | Faint dot-matrix notices from ill-understood PCWs signalled one approach to parochial administration , hand-written messages in washed-out green biro about where to find the church building 's keys another . |
| 19 | Researchers in eastern China recorded one peak of 75mm per year . |
| 20 | A great Bicester win 15 points to 6 . |
| 21 | In June 1988 one had crashed during an air show in eastern France killing three people [ see p. 36230 ] . |
| 22 | He inoculated 923 people in the first twenty weeks of 1765 and by late September had three inoculation houses at Ingatestone for different classes of patients paying six , four , or three guineas . |
| 23 | The new edition of Holistic London has 300 pages jammed with things you might have heard of , from acupuncture , aromatherapy and flotation tanks to somewhat more esoteric stuff like Autogenic training , Rolfing and Polarity therapy . |
| 24 | ‘ The father of poor Agnes had two daughters , ’ said Mr Brownlow . |
| 25 | When the TV star subsequently referred to him in interviews as ‘ an extortionist ’ and ‘ a tennis show pimp ’ , the angry Edwards brought two $10 million suits against Hall for defamation suits which were thrown out of court this March . |
| 26 | In one season alone Gallacher scored 46 goals for Airdrie , striking up an almost telepathic relationship with the club 's left winger Jimmy Sommerville , a name that conjures up images of late '80s gay-disco rather than Broomfield Park in the midst of industrial depression . |
| 27 | An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others . |
| 28 | Southampton-based Gresham employs 90 staff . |
| 29 | On May 13 1988 , Computergram Number 928 reported that Hewlett-Packard and Northern Telecom put 50 staff into joint networks operation * * * Samna bought Z-Soft for $4m * * * Commodore showed 68030 board , Unix for Amiga * * * Prime cut 700 jobs * * * Hoskyns would pay £13m for Insight . |
| 30 | Even recession-hit UK managed two points more than the 15% average European revenue growth rate last year . |