Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We 're the trigger we 've got to try and schedule three pickups three baggings a day .
2 However wanting to keep my set-up as simple as possible , I decided to try and use one flashgun mounted in the hot shoe of the camera .
3 His working methods were very different from those of Graham Rowell and she found she was constantly on her toes to try and keep one step ahead of him in anticipating what he would want next .
4 The region has won a £3 million contract awarded by Birmingham City Council to repair and redecorate 7078 council homes .
5 On 17 May the three major oil companies were informed by the Cuban National Bank that they would each have to purchase and process 300,000 m.t .
6 Maria 's husband finds whatever work he can , his income is at best , sporadic , so the couple frequently relies on her meagre income to feed and clothe 8 year old Luis and 9 year old Eveline .
7 The Courts established concepts of chivalry and honour ; each knight was to choose and serve one lady .
8 Lilian Hatton 's got more coats than a perishing film star but she has to go and spend thirty quid on a new outfit for Pertwee 's wedding .
9 Furthermore , she was n't too keen on having to shop and prepare three meals a day when she 'd been so organised before , and had done the minimum of cooking .
10 Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair .
11 Each contract covers the right to buy or sell 1,000 Dixons shares at a given price in the future .
12 They are followed by people acting neutrally in a principled way , i.e. , because they believe that there is a reason not to help or hinder one side more than the other .
13 The £2,000 will provide sufficient funds to buy and train one guide dog .
14 Brewers Carlsberg have promised to double the club 's donation which is targeted for £2,000 to buy and train two dogs .
15 In 1576 Simon Bowyer , gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth , was granted a licence to buy and sell 500 sarplers of wool in the following ten years ; and in 1590 he received a commission to act as sole informer against those who infringed certain statutes controlling the wool trade .
16 THE mineworkers ' unions yesterday agreed to call off their High Court bid to force British Coal to reopen and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure .
17 Barcelona looked home and dry when going 2-0 up after 31 minutes but the Russians refused to surrender and scored three goals in 16 minutes either side of half-time .
18 Does the student follow the old adage that to read and paraphrase one book is plagiarism but to use two is research ?
19 But he expects Wilson Bowden to build and sell 1,650 homes this year , an increase of 30 per cent on 1991 and 1992 .
20 The project should get off the ground before the end of this year , when the final touches have been put to the package of financial backing that ACE needs to build and test two prototypes of a design it calls the ACE 3000 .
21 The children 's ward at Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital waits to welcome and help 10 year old Arma Neviskya .
22 This small-scale study aims to describe and evaluate one initiative in this field .
23 The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure .
24 And nothing to eat or drink four hours before your appointment tonight .
25 The reed beds cost £5 million to develop and cover 12 acres of land .
26 To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland !
27 This time they centred around the inability , on my part , to learn and remember two-and-a-half hours ' solo dialogue , to look remotely like the woman I was playing , and to overcome the prejudices of the millions of Joyce-worshippers who were all sitting out there sticking pins in little waxwork Lipman dolls .
28 Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows .
29 Inside , prize tokens swirl in currents of air and each person tries to touch and keep one token within the given time .
30 The same procedures ( locating ground control points , computing a map-to-image and image-to-map transform , and resampling to generate a corrected output image ) can be used to register or overlay two images of the same area taken at different dates .
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