Example sentences of "[verb] twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other day he swam twenty laps for all-over muscle tone . |
| 2 | He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments . |
| 3 | And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir . |
| 4 | To mark twenty years of loyal service , Hugh Anderson was presented with an inscribed watch by the Managing Director , Andrew Steel ( left ) . |
| 5 | The drum , containing twenty gallons of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid , was taken from a locked cage at a factory on the Tower Road Trading estate at Berinsfield in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | The weighting screen presents twenty options including on-line help , and saving of changes , while others allow sorting of data , changing of titles , reversing of the XY ranges and so on . |