Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 2 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 3 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 4 | THE fun-loving niece of tycoon Lord Hanson plunged to her death after knocking back SEVENTEEN tequila slammer cocktails costing just £8.50 . |
| 5 | He blasted them with a powerful assault rifle after knocking back eight pints and storming his girlfriend 's flat , it was alleged . |
| 6 | Champions NESTON travel to NORTHERN after picking up four wins out of five while NEW BRIGHTON skipper Tim Watkins ' keeps faith with the side that drew with Liverpool last week for the trip to ORMSKIRK . |
| 7 | After snapping up four birdies , he said : ‘ The course was hideously tricky in that wind . |
| 8 | Identical twin boys , aged 14 , were found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery at the Old Bailey yesterday after holding up two women with air pistols in Wembley . |
| 9 | A neutron in a free state will decay in about ten minutes into a proton , after giving off one unit of negative electrical energy in the form of a negative pion . |
| 10 | In 1715 , in return for writing off two years of annuity payments worth something over £1 million , the government permitted it a fresh share issue which brought its capital up to £10 million , about half of the entire joint-stock capital in the country . |
| 11 | The main feeling I had when going back was of déjà vu , of stepping back two years in my life . |
| 12 | After seven years of bringing up two children , now aged ten and nine , she took refresher nursing courses and eventually landed a much coveted job as a school nurse . |
| 13 | This job consisted of picking up thirty-six containers from the jetty Where they were being unloaded from HMAV Arakan ( one of the two Army Landing Craft Logistic ) and moving them to the container park . |
| 14 | Having experienced that particular chaos , she was careful to keep her books up to date , a simple matter of filling in two columns each day , ‘ Purchases made ’ and ‘ Total cash takings ’ . |
| 15 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 16 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 18 | This is multi-loading and saves the trouble of closing down one program to start another . |
| 19 | Her working gear comprised an oversized boat-necked T-shirt which had a habit of slipping off one shoulder , frayed denim shorts and flip-flops . |
| 20 | If you are thinking of connecting up two computers or exploring the world outside via modem then get this disk first and get primed up ! |
| 21 | And they said you know , and then all of a sudden it had sort of gone up six percent . |
| 22 | It provides that information may be withheld where a firm : " maintains an established arrangement which requires information obtained by the firm in the course of carrying on one part of its business of any kind to be withheld in certain circumstances from persons with whom it deals in the course of carrying on another part of its business of any kind . " |
| 23 | Slightly less clear is the effect of FSA , s 48(2) ( h ) , which authorises rules : " enabling or requiring information obtained by an authorised person in the course of carrying on one part of his business to be withheld by him from persons with whom he deals in the course of carrying on another part and for that purpose enabling or requiring persons employed in one part of that business to withhold information from those employed in another part . " |
| 24 | The father was giving evidence at a Perth High Court sitting on the third day of the trial of an Alloa man , David Hepburn , 29 , who is accused of carrying out three sex attacks in 12 hours . |
| 25 | However , I do n't see the point of fighting off one set of advances only to capitulate to the next . |
| 26 | He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days . |
| 27 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |
| 28 | SLEEPY Hugh O'Neil escaped a fine or jail for turning up two hours late at court yesterday — because cops searching his home had taken away his alarm clock . |
| 29 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 30 | I was really into checking out fifties style . |