Example sentences of "you [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look through and you rotate that eyepiece until you 've either got maximum brightness cos you got a second polaroid system in there as well you see you either get maximum brightness or complete darkness . |
| 2 | and Jenny was saying she went to Debenhams yesterday they had a twelve day spectacular at eight thirty to eight thirty at night there was clothes they were half price plus you got a third of ten per cent off . |
| 3 | Their realism wo n't help you explain a hundredth part of the real events which have actually occurred . |
| 4 | Now you want a seventh remember . |
| 5 | Priestley concludes that ‘ twenty Marxian treatises about the proletariat would not make you feel a tenth of the compassion for the dispossessed urban masses as this bit of pantomime does ’ . |
| 6 | I expected more of you but perhaps you deserve a second chance . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you see a sixty-fifth floor , chief ? ’ |
| 8 | If you add a second set of stripes , at right angles to the first but also moving at right angles to their axis , the person will not see two sets of stripes but a set of chevrons moving at 45 degrees to the true directions of movement . |
| 9 | Furthermore , if you give a second pulse , a short period after the first pulse , you fail to elicit a large sodium current . |
| 10 | As a communist leader who has , in his own way , resisted change said before ordering the tanks to go in , ‘ If you give a first step , it is never the last . ’ |
| 11 | When you get a fifth of something you get twice as much as when you get a tenth . |
| 12 | When you get a fifth of something you get twice as much as when you get a tenth . |
| 13 | So share it out between three you get a third . |
| 14 | Three shared out between twelve you get a fourth . |
| 15 | Right , so you get a twelfth . |
| 16 | A lot of you are doing it because you want to go onto further or higher education , and you needed a third A Level to add to your other two . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're a good rider , Lady Fei , but that 's not a stunt I 'd recommend you try a second time . ’ |
| 18 | So the tree that pollinates the triploid wo n't produce any fruit unless you plant a third variety flowering at the same time . |
| 19 | One facile answer I have heard , or read , to the question : How do you tell a first edition ? is : When there is no evidence that it is anything else . |
| 20 | When you brought a second home ! |
| 21 | The rule of thumb is that , whenever you choose a next node , the one you choose has as large a value f(N) as possible . |
| 22 | So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark . |
| 23 | Or try , you did a fifteenth earlier did n't you ? |
| 24 | Well , for a hundred miles or an hour , but you did a tenth of a mile in a , a thousandth of an hour . |
| 25 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 26 | If you have ever wished that you had a third hand to make notes we have the answer . |
| 27 | So that 's one tenth and that 's one tenth and then what I 'd like you to do is work it out as a fraction what fraction of how many degrees would it be if you had a tenth of three hundred and sixty degrees , how many degrees would that come to ? |
| 28 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you a reasonably diffused light . |
| 29 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you reasonably diffuse light . |
| 30 | Then , just to get you really thinking , you answer a second crucial question : What would I do if I had only six months to live ? |