Example sentences of "and [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their talks Gayoom and Shekhar agreed to review and upgrade the 1981 India-Maldives trade agreement . |
| 2 | He heard the dialling tone and stabbed the 9 button three times . |
| 3 | Turn work again and repeat the two rows continuously . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered . |
| 7 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 8 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 9 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 10 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 11 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 12 | And we 've increased the old British League by four , and equalled the two Leagues out , so we should see erm quite some interesting speedway this year . |
| 13 | On Sunday , July 12 , 1987 , the gang went to the Deposit Centre in Brompton Road , central London , and emptied the 121 boxes which contained jewellery , gold , cash and cocaine . |
| 14 | They 'll be storing hundreds of vehicles at the site and using the 700 acres for military exercise . |
| 15 | Paint the edge of just one half of the shape with a little melted chocolate and bring the two halves together . |
| 16 | But their debts paid , they took off again and rode the '80s boom in commercial property . |
| 17 | The mine-workers have always preferred lengthy day-release courses for active members , usually organised through extra-mural departments of the WEA and pre-dating the 1975 entitlements , to the more limited TUC courses ( more limited in three senses : they are shorter , they are role training , and they are only for representatives ) . |
| 18 | We prefer to generalise and to treat the three lines independently . |
| 19 | Then , when she had joined him , he had shone his torch on the locks and inserted the three keys , first the Yale , and then the Ingersoll , and lastly the security lock which disconnected the electronic warning system from Guy 's Marsh police station . |
| 20 | The government may again do the unthinkable and push the 1989 budget through the Diet without the blessing of the opposition . |
| 21 | I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so . |
| 22 | It was almost surreal , an angry crowd waggling protest placards and condemning the seven decades of Communist rule that had beggared and laid waste the vast land . |
| 23 | Leaving the safety of Valencia , he marched swiftly to a wooded valley near Tevar and fortified the three entrances with stout barriers . |
| 24 | After a hearing lasting five days the Board of Review allowed the appeal and referred the four assessments back to the commissioner for revision . |
| 25 | Old friends of her father had sometimes stayed there , and invited the two girls to dinner . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | There was no chance of them spawning while the tyrant Fire continued his reign of terror so I took a chance and moved the five Fires to another community . |
| 28 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 29 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 30 | Would not it be much better to pinch another of Labour 's ideas and lease the 188 trains rather than provide compensation schemes , chocolates and flowers ? |