Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are
2 So I 've got time to sit down for five minutes before we go out ai n't I ?
3 And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’
4 I need to sit down for three minutes or , me back 'll snap in two .
5 Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group .
6 Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group .
7 And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock .
8 The size of the device — which Faris expects to be able to scale down to 0.1 micrometres across — makes it suitable for use in very and ultra-large scale integrated circuits .
9 You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks .
10 Mother had to struggle on with nine children making a terrible din , and almost drowning out her powers of concentration .
11 THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age .
12 Except that she 's got to clock in in five minutes time .
13 It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this .
14 Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension .
15 The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years .
16 I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her .
17 The goal came as City tried to struggle through with 10 men while Rick Holden was having four stitches in a mouth wound after colliding with team-mate Terry Phelan .
18 We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other .
19 Menem also indicated that Argentina , in return for EC aid and improved trading arrangements , would be prepared to accept up to 300,000 immigrants from the former Eastern bloc over the next three years ; he discussed with EC commissioners the possible arrival of 40,000 immigrants in the short term .
20 Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme :
21 But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ?
22 OATS has also won a contract from Kuwait Airways to train up to thirty pilots over the next two years .
23 This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters .
24 The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts .
25 Much praised at the Evian conference for a bold offer to absorb up to 100,000 refugees , the Dominican Republic had closed its application list at 2000 .
26 If the client is happy to pay any contribution required , the solicitor is authorized to provide up to two hours of work .
27 The necessity of obtaining every ounce of production in the grim days of 1940 raised the standard week of the workshops to 66-hours and , it was not unusual for men to work up to 80 hours per week for long periods , involving seven days a week without a break .
28 Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm .
29 The Red Queen role was the same part she had to pull out of 18 months ago because of ill health .
30 They may be good business for surveyors , but they are a waste of money for those buyers who are unsuccessful or who have to pull out for one reason or another .
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