Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here 's him — no parents , no roof over his head , on the streets , sleeping God knows where — and here 's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy 'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest .
2 He was disqualified for leaning on after receiving three warnings in the third round of an absorbing light middleweight semi-final against John Mett of the Phil Thomas School of Boxing .
3 Three out of four break down before completing 1500 hours .
4 Erm but I 've just thought , you know , get this away , let him get you know , buy them , go in at say forty percent as an O E margin
5 But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals .
6 His mind was n't up to speaking one line while listening to another , and at the same time trying to remember the next move .
7 Line graphs ( see figure 13 ) are drawn up by constructing two scales :
8 Standards were made up by drawing 5 ml of venous blood daily for four days after injection of the labelled red cells .
9 Usually LIFESPAN can be called up by typing one word , as set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , and details are given by the Help facility .
10 The society also placed advertisements asking for applications to draw on its funds for the purpose of release from debtors ' prisons , and backed this up by sending two members of the committee on a tour of London 's gaols to receive applications and arrange for the release of ‘ the most distressed objects , preferring the most useful Artists and Manufacturers , and those who have the largest families . ’
11 Being Ireland , they ended up by eating three teas , then roared out to a singing pub in Howth , then went for a major curry before returning for a ‘ little party ’ in a student house .
12 Since television pictures are built up by interlacing two half-frames , the factor of 50 updates per second means that the picture is updated at 25 complete frames each second .
13 Gatting , back after serving three years of a five-year ban for his part in the rebel tour of South Africa , has unselfishly not forgotten how Gower fought for him to be his understudy in the sub-continent .
14 Schmeichel , back after missing two games with a poisoned hand , also blocked Bernie Slaven 's close-range blast with his legs but most of the spotlight fell on Pears who left United for Middlesbrough six years ago in a £70,000 deal after making just five first-team appearances .
15 Former Chelsea striker Dixon is back after missing two matches with an ankle injury .
16 Hudson , who held the innings together for eight hours 40 minutes , was finally yorked off-stump by Benjamin , seventh out after facing 521 balls from which he hit 20 fours .
17 That leaves many at the mercy of landlords in a tough market … like this young woman who was told to get out after falling one week behind with her rent .
18 ‘ I grew out of joy-riding ten years ago . ’
19 The only sparks at the County Ground , came from Brentford , who turned the formbook upside down and inside out by putting 2 goals past Swindon .
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