Example sentences of "and [verb] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn work again and repeat the two rows continuously . |
| 2 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 3 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They 'll be storing hundreds of vehicles at the site and using the 700 acres for military exercise . |
| 9 | Paint the edge of just one half of the shape with a little melted chocolate and bring the two halves together . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | We prefer to generalise and to treat the three lines independently . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Leaving the safety of Valencia , he marched swiftly to a wooded valley near Tevar and fortified the three entrances with stout barriers . |
| 16 | After a hearing lasting five days the Board of Review allowed the appeal and referred the four assessments back to the commissioner for revision . |
| 17 | Old friends of her father had sometimes stayed there , and invited the two girls to dinner . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Just about this time he put his hand into his jacket pocket and found the two bills from Mouncy Street . |
| 23 | The Silver Birches giggled in a skittish fashion and the Copper Beeches shook out their rippling manes of glowing leaf-hair and regarded the two Renascians through the red-gold curtains . |
| 24 | She went at once over to the table and regarded the two exhibits , the files and the scientific paraphernalia . |
| 25 | Unfold and place the three strips on top of each other . |
| 26 | Ayala Lasso also expressed the hope that the admission of the Koreas would reduce regional tension and provide the two states with " an appropriate forum in which to consider the many things they have in common and to overcome the few remaining obstacles to their unification " . |
| 27 | She put down her long life to what she regarded as healthy eating — her breakfast on her last birthday was brandy , bacon and eggs — and keeping the Ten Commandments . |
| 28 | There is a magical quality of invention about the Red House , and perhaps one 's excitement is heightened by imagining Morris 's friends arriving at Abbey Wood Station and driving the three miles into the country to come and stay here . |
| 29 | Our objectives are to simplify and integrate the two systems , to mount a determined assault on poverty and dependence , and to protect our citizens from want . |
| 30 | Jump onto the lift to your right , then on the second lift , and finally onto a platform ( watch out for the bare wires ) , climb down the site of this second building if you wish to collect a couple of records , but it 's quicker and safer to climb up the purple wall above you and climb the four ladders , grab the crate and jump onto the platform on your left , kill the mugger , climb the ladder and grab another crate , climb another ladder , then another kill the workman in the process , run across to the right , jump before you touch the wire and you should land on the next platform . |