Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , sales here increased 133% to £5.6m , and made up 45% of all new licence sales . |
| 2 | They took the house over and sucked in people from everywhere and telephones rang with careless invitations and orders to wine merchants and grocers . |
| 3 | Lee , who took £11,486 from friends and customers and paid only £6,774 into an account over a 48week period , surrendered herself to police on the day she was due to pay the money out . |
| 4 | Essential Computing is a two-year-old nest of refugees from Zeta Systems and turned over £500,000 in its first year . |
| 5 | Two areas of about 40 mm , one including the gastric ulcer and the other a similar area of adjacent intact mucosa were excised and the radioactivity of each excised piece was measured and expressed as cpm per 100 mg of tissue . |
| 6 | Eddie Moore , our Church Officer , gave up a week of his holiday — and raised over £1,000 for Christian Aid , from the records and stamps , professionally prepared for us by Laurie Bruce and Scott Anderson . |
| 7 | On the return journey the headboard carried by Flying Scotsman was raffled and raised over £250 for charity . |
| 8 | With wine and cheese , an interesting floor show and raffle it proved to be a most successful event and raised over £250 for lifeboat funds . |
| 9 | Michael Palin , top selling Christmas author with Pole to Pole ( BBC Books — see Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) , played to a full house and raised nearly £3,000 for the Playhouse in Oxford when he gave a talk about his travels , organised by Blackwells in December . |
| 10 | In October 1992 he and raised almost £1,000 at a Cabaret Evening in the parish for Somalia . |
| 11 | Another climber suffered head injuries when he lost his footing and fell about 150ft down Ben Oss near Tyndrum , Perthshire . |
| 12 | But as the boy scrambled about , he stood on a skylight and fell about 12ft into the room below . |
| 13 | A BUSINESSMAN who defied Sunday trading laws ten years ago , and gathered over £4,000 in fines and legal fees in the process , has been declared bankrupt . |
| 14 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 15 | The European Commission has made a sudden U-turn and invested approximately £860,000 in wave power feasibility studies . |
| 16 | Mrs Robinson referred to figures given to Labour 's Hilary Armstrong and said only 25pc of children were in special nursery classes , while the 48pc figure included under-fives in school as well . |
| 17 | By way of establishing the necessary animus Mr Watkinson on behalf of the appellant pointed out that both Mr Carey and the appellant had changed the locks of the premises and carried out works of repair and maintenance inside . |
| 18 | Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region . |
| 19 | However McEvoy , 21 , broke into the house in October 1990 and stole almost £4,000 of property . |