Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to straighten out the Lang Lang river in Australia between 1920 and 1923 caused a series of cuts into the bank , which progressed rapidly upstream and destroyed seven bridges . |
| 2 | You know , we do n't stand back idly and see one man penalized . |
| 3 | They beat everyone brutally and captured five people , including myself . |
| 4 | We arrive at school , just before nine o'clock and had seven hours of school to look forward to . |
| 5 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 6 | She was knitting to cars as one single motif on her Silver Reed but had put the point cams on incorrectly and had one car in the middle and two half cars either side . |
| 7 | Peasant farmers , the majority of the population , are switching from food crops to coca , which yields far higher profits , grows easily and provides four harvests a year . |
| 8 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
| 9 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 10 | I got up quickly and fetched three glasses . |
| 11 | PRINCESS Diana held hands with a dying AIDS victim yesterday and spent 15 minutes comforting him . |
| 12 | The EC has gone further and adopted 1 January 1997 as the cut-off date for member states . |
| 13 | Wasps tighthead Paddy Dunston finds himself upright and turned 90 degrees as Harlequins ' loosehead Jason Leonard turns the screw in a successful attempt to disrupt the Sudbury club 's front row . |
| 14 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 15 | Intending to get up early and do two hours work before breakfast is less likely to happen than planning to do it . |
| 16 | They sat and finished their meal , Corbett chewing his food carefully and downing two cups of heady claret to calm his nerves . |
| 17 | On yesterday 's anaemic display they did n't deserve to as Collegians dominated throughout and scored five tries . |
| 18 | Nicholas accepted the suggestion instantly and turned three members of Menshikov 's team into what became known as " The Buturlin Committee " ( after the name of its chairman ) or " The Committee of 2 April 1848 " ( after the date of its foundation ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Before my operation I could n't walk 30 yards and now I can work full-time and play 30 holes of golf , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Miss T. was admitted to the ward at 6.10 a.m. and given 50 mg. of pethidine together with antibiotics at 6.55 a.m . |
| 21 | She plans to emblazon each badge correctly and hopes one day to have done all of the RAF 's badges , Squadrons , Groups , Wings , Commands , Stations — in all a staggering 2,500 plus ! |
| 22 | He pushed the bottom half of the window upwards and swung one leg over the sill . |
| 23 | Rory groaned loudly and opened one eye to glare at Candy . |
| 24 | Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result . |
| 25 | The Houston Astrodome in Texas was built many years ago and offers 24 acres of covered facilities . |
| 26 | Felt started out 10 years ago and recorded 10 albums before breaking up this week after a final show in their home town , Birmingham , thus concluding the curious master-plan that was apparently drawn up early in their career by the band 's singer and song-writer , who is known simply as Lawrence . |
| 27 | ‘ Go and ask them what they want , then ask them if they want milk and sugar with it , then ask another one the same , and then come back here and get two cups and the biscuits from me . |
| 28 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 29 | Really angry with himself , he splashed out too strongly and needed two putts to get down . |
| 30 | Subjects were fasted overnight and given 800 mg of cimetidine ( SKB , Welwyn , UK ) orally , one hour before the test , to avoid interference with the electrical signal from hydrogen ion activity . |