Example sentences of "and [verb] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had warrants to look for evidence of unlawful drinking and to search five houses for petrol bombs , although no evidence of either was found . |
| 2 | The scheme was launched to staff at the end of 1992 , since when the Enterprise Centre has received around 15 enquiries from staff and placed five individuals on training courses as follows : |
| 3 | In The Social Contract ( 1762 ) Rousseau had advocated such a religion , to be maintained by the state , and to include five articles of faith : the existence of a divinity who is omnipotent , intelligent and benevolent , and who foresees and provides ; the future life ; the happiness of the good ; the punishment of the wicked ; and the sanctity of the ‘ social contract ’ ( on which society itself is based ) and of the law . |
| 4 | She relieved him of it , and made five bullets count , dropping Minutemen and Daughters where they stood . |
| 5 | The UN Security Council met repeatedly during August in response to the Gulf crisis and passed five resolutions [ see box ] , moving on from its first and immediate condemnation of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ( Resolution 660 on Aug. 2 ) , to impose mandatory sanctions ( Resolution 661 on Aug. 6 ) , and later to allow states to use their naval forces for " measures " to ensure implementation of such sanctions ( Resolution 665 on Aug. 25 ) , while also rejecting the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait ( Resolution 662 on Aug. 9 ) and demanding freedom of departure from , and consular access to , foreign nationals in Kuwait and Iraq ( Resolution 664 of Aug. 18 ) . |
| 6 | Yesterday , Ellen Burton , 26 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted five offences of theft . |
| 7 | They were halted by the police , stones were thrown , and the European Superinten-dent opened fire on the crowd , killing two and wounding five others . |
| 8 | It is smaller and has five aisles and three eastern apses . |
| 9 | The Restaurants & Leisure division of Whitbread plc employs approximately 40000 people and has five UK businesses , including the Thresher drinks retailing chain with 1660 shops nationwide , 250 Beefeater family restaurants , TGI Friday 's the American Bistro and 282 Pizza Hut restaurants . |
| 10 | The place is freezing and has five hours of daily sunlight in December — thought you can still ski and enjoy the kaleidoscope spectacular of Northern Lights . |
| 11 | The first is called an Operational Standard and has five requirements : |
| 12 | Like S. Mark , the cathedral is based on the Greek cross plan and has five domes , one over each arm and one over the crossing . |
| 13 | but you do n't go in and buy five cases of |
| 14 | Two urethral injections of argyrol ( 10% ) are then given and retained five minutes . |
| 15 | It appeared behind a clump of dead plants , ran over and stopped five metres from them . |
| 16 | In each study , continuous infusion of intra-arterial PYX ( 0.1–1.0 µmol/l ) was started five minutes after the start of the carbachol ( 0.1 µmol/l ) infusion and stopped five minutes before the end of the carbachol infusion . |
| 17 | He pulled out a pen and drew five dots in a line along the edge of his newspaper . |
| 18 | He rented a further acre of land and erected five kilns , a drying floor and engine house . |
| 19 | Light the candle , drink the first glass and wait five minutes . |
| 20 | Then he ran to his car and drove five miles to alert police and park rangers . |
| 21 | We left Bilen on the morning of 9 December and camped five hours later in thick bush on the edge of a swamp that extended out of sight along the river . |
| 22 | I had a holiday and studied five weeks in the Art School , Christchurch . |
| 23 | As part of the week , JS held wine tastings in 15 stores and selected five wines to go on special offer . |
| 24 | Every evening I 'd return from school , do my chores and my homework ( and smoke five Woodbines ) , then meet him at Corporation Street baths at 5.30 . |
| 25 | On yesterday 's anaemic display they did n't deserve to as Collegians dominated throughout and scored five tries . |
| 26 | They beat everyone brutally and captured five people , including myself . |
| 27 | The dock was the first of its kind in Northern Britain and was wholly built within the High Water mark and measured five acres . |
| 28 | Scott 's letter was long , rambling and almost cringing in tone ; nevertheless , Palmerston read it and replied five days later with a not unfriendly letter in his own hand . |
| 29 | A MAN fell through the floor of his garden shed at Hythe in Kent — and uncovered five World War Two mortar bombs . |
| 30 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |