Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He heard the dialling tone and stabbed the 9 button three times .
2 On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses .
3 Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study .
4 GEC Alsthom , the Anglo-French turbo-generator manufacturer , has signed a £140m contract to design and build a 350 megawatt , combined cycle gas-fired power station near Sousse in Tunisia .
5 When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered .
6 ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands .
7 With n set to 12 and using a 1097 word dictionary , the word hypothesizer typically finds two correct words bottom-up .
8 ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second .
9 Mitre , based in Huddersfield , had sales of £15m last year and made a 1990 profit of £1.7m .
10 I was recently given permission to search a derelict town house and made a 50/50 agreement with the owner as to the value of any finds .
11 The thief was caught and given a two year prison sentence but the stolen property was not recovered .
12 The girl was also fined £30 and given a 12 month supervision order for breaching a conditional discharge given last year for a burglary at a cycle shop .
13 ‘ This honour is a marvellous way to finish off 1992 , ’ said Roy , 60 , who was struck down with cancer in March and given a one-in-10 chance of survival .
14 But their debts paid , they took off again and rode the '80s boom in commercial property .
15 A second system , not costly in labour or drugs , has been devised for farms where arable crops , sheep and cattle are major components and involves a three year rotation of cattle , sheep and crops .
16 The government may again do the unthinkable and push the 1989 budget through the Diet without the blessing of the opposition .
17 Showing the insignia of a Good deity ( eg Liadriel ) is better , and adds a +10 modifier to the Fel test here ( see below ) .
18 Pure Class International restores classic Jensens , and has a four year waiting list .
19 The 430E is powered by a 1000 watt motor and has a 20 litre waste capacity , the 820E has a 1500 watt motor , 45 litre waste capacity and is trolley mounted .
20 Situated at the top of Duddingston Loch , this is the oldest licensed Inn in Scotland ( 1360 ) and has a 250 year old skittle alley .
21 As you 'd expect , being a Saab , it runs on unleaded fuel and has a 3 way catalytic converter .
22 Hewlett-Packard Co and Lotus Development Corp duly joined forces to announce the HP 100LX handheld 80C186 machine yesterday : the machine uses Lotus 's cc:Mail Mobile package and the machine , measuring 6.3″ by 3.4″ by 1″ and has an 80 line by 25 character display , is $750 ; adaptors , MS-DOS linking packs and flash cards are offered as options for it ( CI No 2,160 ) .
23 Inspired by Kiwi loose-forward Tawera Nikau , Castleford always looked the sharper side and built a 6-2 interval lead in a rehearsal for next Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final clash at Knowsley Road .
24 and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it !
25 If you are truly uncertain about the marginal utility schedules and attach a 0.5 probability to the gain and the loss , expected utility is maximized by the equal allocation , because half of 839–10 clearly exceeds half of 3456 .
26 Cheeky thieves broke the window of Anthony Gordon outfitters in Westborough , Scarborough , and used a five foot long metal hook to pull out a display full of expensive sweaters .
27 The database has extensive disaggregation by country , distinguishes fourteen commodity groups and covers a twenty year span of data .
28 Fishermen from Devon and Cornish ports arrived throughout the night at Plymouth and stopped the 8,500 ton French-owned ferry Quiberon on an overnight crossing from Roscoff from docking .
29 He warned against running a deficit , and termed the 1989 deficit an " outstanding contradiction " resulting from the June rebellion , the non-implementation of measures to generate income and over-spending on agriculture , education , science and technology , and disaster relief .
30 She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness .
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