Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight riders galloped from cover and came thudding across the cleared land towards the settlement . |
| 2 | They said the sailors were detained after about 500 seamen brawled along Lisbon 's dockside , besieging a police station , smashing windows in shops and bars and overturning cars . |
| 3 | After the collapse of the Dwarf empire almost three and a half thousand years ago the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight Peaks lay in ruins . |
| 4 | About 75 acres came from Bolney Estates Limited and about 30 acres from Mr K.K. McKenzie of Gillotts , this latter being all that part of the course west of a straight line drawn from a point close by the public footpath near the 5th green , through the wood and across the 8th , 9th and 10th fairways to the Belle Hatch road at right angles . |
| 5 | The sponsorship money for the 30 squares amounted to £150,000 and paid all the production and advertising costs for the game . |
| 6 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 7 | A team of 30 rescuers battled throughout Monday night and yesterday morning to free the men , crawling on their stomachs and ripping out debris with their hands as temperatures reached 30C three-quarters of a mile from the pit shaft of Stillingfleet colliery , North Yorks . |
| 8 | Biggest police shake-up for 30 years unveiled by Clarke |
| 9 | Christianity came to England up a river , when St Augustine and his forty monks travelled to Canterbury up the Kentish Stour , ‘ singing all the way ’ . |
| 10 | Last week 2 detectives flew to Turkey to talk to her and she volunteered to return to Britain . |
| 11 | Twenty-one of the 53 schemes led to CSE examinations , six of these having been devised initially by LEAs . |
| 12 | Somewhat surprisingly , for example , in the early 1890s Engels wrote of workers prior to industrial capitalism as follows : |
| 13 | A Steiff gold plush Teddy Bear , circa 1910 , only 8½″ high , named Marmaduke , brought £1,200 and wooden Noah 's Ark 29″ long x 18″ high with 16 carved wooden animals and 7 birds went for £1,000 . |
| 14 | His Empire contained big national minorities , of which the most important was a population of 2,500,000 Poles in Prussia itself ; 250,000 Frenchmen lived in Alsace and there were also substantial numbers of Wends , Danes and Lithuanians within the Empire . |
| 15 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 16 | An Army sweep through the Kahnawake reservation in search of weapons on Sept. 18 left 100 Indians hospitalized from injuries and the effects of tear gas , and seven soldiers were also injured . |
| 17 | As 8,000 refugees escaped into Croatia the last bridge was blown up . |
| 18 | Of the total waste , 13,550 tonnes came from Switzerland , 9,229 tonnes from Belgium . |
| 19 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 20 | Decompression of 13 of the 14 acute gall bladders for seven to 10 days resulted in resolution of acute cholecystitis ( six ) , mucocoeles ( two ) , perforated empyemas associated with liver abscesses ( two ) , and jaundice alone , with empyema or with pancreatitis ( three ) before stone extraction was undertaken . |
| 21 | Ten rail unions representing some 250,000 workers went on strike on April 17 after failing to resolve a three-year dispute with management over wages , health care and working conditions . |
| 22 | The Anglo.American Cataloguing Rules , prepared jointly by the Library Association , the American Library Association , the Canadian Library Association and the Library of Congress , were published in 1967 with some sixty-six pages devoted to rules for non-book materials , and dissatisfaction with these rules produced further publications from the Canadian Library Association ( Riddle 1970 ; Weihs , Lewis and Macdonald 1973 ) , the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction of the National Education Association ( 1968 ) , and the very impressive LA/NCET rules issued by the Library Association and the ( then ) National Council for Educational Technology ( 1973 ) . |
| 23 | On 18 May a procession of 1000 to 1500 persons marched in defiance , beating drums and carrying flags . |
| 24 | The pattern of six cysteines encoded in segments 6 and 8 matches that of an epidermal growth factor ( EGF ) -like motif . |
| 25 | Out of these , 10 patients died of causes unrelated to Dieulafoy lesion bleeding with a mean follow up of 13.8 months ( minimum : 2 months , maximum 54 months ) . |
| 26 | Donna , her parents and 100 neighbours fled in terror as the kamikaze flyer : |
| 27 | In 1991 profits fell from £314m to £151m and in 1992 it halved again to £77m . |
| 28 | Mr Blue , though a magnificent dog himself , never really proved himself as a stud , whereas Superman , one of six champions sired by Bulli , became a prolific sire . |
| 29 | In the worst incident , 100 youths rioted in Lincoln . |
| 30 | A rumour that he was casting 100 children went round St James 's School in Church Street , so instead of going straight home the girl pupils nipped off to the audition . |