Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 2 | Notice that the conditions on the metric components and derivatives only make up nine equations , whereas there are ten degrees of freedom . |
| 3 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 4 | Only send in three tracks at the most ( naturally your best ) . |
| 5 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 6 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 7 | Chris was stunning in a green Chinese-style gown with a long slit up one side . |
| 8 | He was in Northumberland with the wife 's mother for ten days , only got back three days ago . |
| 9 | only going back one year . |
| 10 | US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 11 | By mid-May OPEC production levels had dropped by between 700,000 and 900,000 bpd , with Saudi Arabia alone cutting back 430,000 bpd to reach its agreed quota of 5,380,000 bpd . |
| 12 | The team was only set up 3 years ago when the rink was built and is now ranked 13th in the country . |
| 13 | It does n't matter if this essay does only end up one side long , my standard grade folio is almost complete anyway . |
| 14 | She only took out three pages , so it ca n't be bad . ’ |
| 15 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 16 | Do these all go up two squares at a time ? |
| 17 | Tug of Gold has also returned in great heart , only put up two pounds for a 10length romp from subsequent scorer Rio Haina at Uttoxeter last month , and must rate a big danger . |
| 18 | Intel Corp will reportedly use PC Expo in New York in June to preview the so-called 80586 or P5 microprocessor in a technology demo perhaps showing off three versions . |
| 19 | He can only pick up one person and throw him two metres … |
| 20 | Also it 's a role that tends to creep up on people — you do n't suddenly wake up one morning and find you are a carer . |
| 21 | In the wide centre space , where one box alone stood along one wall , there was a comfortable chair for the redoubtable Ms Brown , along with a table , equipment lockers , a refrigerator and a heavy plastic water tank with a tap low down for the filling of buckets . |
| 22 | The next day the boy seemed to work just as hard and just as long , but he only chopped down eight trees . |
| 23 | And certain kinds of knowledge you can only find out one way — through pain . |
| 24 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 25 | Instead of just cooking up three dimensions with all of the responsibility that modelling and casting can involve , she ‘ plunders ’ the freshness of a medium she does n't fully understand to bring spatial illusion into her own sculptural space . |
| 26 | Having thus fended off three challenges to his leadership , Franco felt sufficiently confident to deal summarily with the fourth , simply picking off the signatories of the September petition one by one . |
| 27 | There were open sliding glass windows at the side of the house and in the dim interior I could just make out two figures standing . |
| 28 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |
| 29 | It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does . |
| 30 | But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change . |