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

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1 Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili .
2 Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out .
3 Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 .
4 The pardon had been a central demand of previous Army mutinies , and the prospect of its being announced was thought to have encouraged the loyalty of the Army in putting down the Dec. 3 carapintadas rebellion .
5 The operating crew mistakenly shut down the no. 2 engine .
6 there was coincidental positive reinforcement that indicated shutting down the no. 2 engine was the correct course of action .
7 Balza , who put down the December 1990 rebellion by the right-wing carapintadas faction of the army [ see p. 37913 ] , declined to comment on former Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin whose release from prison the attempted coup had been intended to force .
8 Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification .
9 Sprinkle sharp sand along the slit — enough to fill in the bottom 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) or so .
10 A stabbing brought in the police one night .
11 JIM WATTON , contract manager for CCG at Scotrail , is delighted at the impact his trolley service has had on rail passengers in Scotland since the company took over the contract two years ago .
12 She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away .
13 The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work .
14 The national coach has been forced to treat withdrawals as a way of life since taking over the job six-and-a-half years ago .
15 Bill took over the job 25 years ago .
16 ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider .
17 A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago .
18 He rode back up the drive one shilling heavier and two letters lighter .
19 I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you .
20 After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused .
21 Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age .
22 He says up the A one left at Catterick .
23 For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it .
24 Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time .
25 Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago .
26 We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula .
27 Can we be certain that aggregate demand will be sufficient to take up the OQ 1 units of output produced ?
28 Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud .
29 Leicester 's highly-rated young lock , Martin Johnson , whose decisive second-half try set up the Midlands 16-13 win over the North , played down his England prospects .
30 Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder .
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