Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I likes the three papers for sitting back to do the crosswords .
2 Rape clearly contravenes international law and she cites the 1907 Hague Conventions , the '49 Geneva Conventions and the '77 Protocols to make her point .
3 In Catherine of Siena 's Dialogue , she charts the five stages of weeping the mystic may expect .
4 as it crosses the four quarters .
5 Military analysts say President Bush is deluded if he thinks the 30,000 troops will be home by January 20 , when Bill Clinton takes over .
6 FRENCH TRAINER Andre Fabre 's lightning visit to Newbury ensured he has the 2,000 Guineas favourite in his yard — but curiously it is not Lion Cavern , the courageous winner of the Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes .
7 It joins the two pictures together to make one new picture .
8 He wants the two actors to invent the scene we never see .
9 He wants the 2 jails to have independent management .
10 He says the two companies will form a strong group which will play an important part on the international stage .
11 A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy .
12 He describes the four levels of question formulation as follows :
13 For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn .
14 Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ .
15 Even if you 've got twelve megabytes , you ca n't use them , let me explain why , erm , it uses the sixteen bytes per block , solely from conventional memory .
16 Although he loathes the Nineties cult of the personality , one suspects that , in future , it wo n't just be his players who are watching him .
17 It says the two market leaders ADW , developed by KnowledgeWare Inc — but marketed by Ernst & Young in Europe — and Softlab GmbH 's Maestro , failed to show any growth at all during 1991 but were still able to maintain their top positions .
18 Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s .
19 As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each .
20 It links the three floors of the shop and makes for a glamorous , if vertiginous , catwalk .
21 It exceeds the 10½ inches , but not the 12 inches , and I was rather hoping it may be a record size .
22 erm This is quite an interesting cartoon , and really has no connection with either St Aldate 's or Oxford , erm but it was actually published in 1642 , and it shows the two sides , the Roundheads and the Cavaliers , and what I think is interesting about it is that it does seem to be quite objective , it does n't seem to be particularly getting at one side or the other , which is very rare for the kind of erm cartoons that were later issued during the war .
23 One at least of these has for certain survived and it includes the 1916 drawing of the course reproduced in this publication .
24 It depicts the two daughters of the Rev. William Robinson , a Prebendary of the Cathedral , who died , full of promise , early in 1812 .
25 He keeps the two spheres as separate as possible , leading an almost Jekyll and Hyde existence .
26 He fishes the seven lumps of sugar out of his coffee .
27 With Gerbrand Grobler playing so well at fullback and backing up Naas as a place kicker , it seems the fifteen spot is tied up .
28 Anderson 's occasional bursts of verbosity implicate a sudden urge to speak on a particular topic and this is most noticeable in scene four where he surprises the two footballers , Broadbent and Crisp , with a turn of 86 words giving unsolicited advice on the Czech team 's tactics ( p. 59 ) .
29 It reformulates the 1918 statement that ‘ The artist , I believe , is more primitive , as well as more civilized , than his contemporaries . ’
30 In fact it figures the three companies will be the only survivors of the coming silicon shoot-out .
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