Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 2 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 3 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 4 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 5 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 6 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as follows : |
| 7 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as described in Appendix F. |
| 8 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 9 | In this type of case it is better to set out the two consequences in separate sub-paragraphs . |
| 10 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 11 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 12 | Neil Pascoe says he 's always wanted to cycle from John 0 Groats to Lands End and then the idea came to run up the three peaks and swim the lakes and try to raise money for charity … |
| 13 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 14 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 15 | It was installed to step down the 33,000 volts supply received at Hindhead from the national grid , to 11,000 for local distribution . |
| 16 | The International Court of Justice in The Hague yesterday rejected Col Gaddafi 's request for an injunction to prevent Britain , the United States and France from putting pressure on Libya to hand over the two suspects . |
| 17 | On March 1 the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Ibrahim Bishari , said after a meeting in Cairo with the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev that Libya " is ready to hand over the two suspects for trial in front of a neutral court in any neutral country " . |
| 18 | Earlier , all three countries dismissed an offer to hand over the two men to Malta . |
| 19 | Libya 's response , presented to the Security Council by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Feb. 12 , refused to hand over the two men , offering instead to try them in Libya . |
| 20 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 21 | Sun could simply cut prices on its diskless workstations to fend off the X terminals crowd , says X Business Group analyst Greg Blatnik , but he does n't really believe it , preferring to think they will join the fray instead . |
| 22 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 23 | Following this brief , Whitaker had gone ahead commissioning a crop of four part stories to make up the twelve shows needed to keep Doctor Who on air for forty-eight weeks — one year in BBC terms , allowing for Christmas , sports events and other potential breaks . |
| 24 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
| 25 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 26 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |