Example sentences of "[verb] they [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
| 2 | In America they seem to hit them twenty five times |
| 3 | You 'll be able to see them two houses from a long way away . |
| 4 | Then they 'll be put on show in what we call habitat displays ' so that all the people of America who wo n't ever come here will be able to see them iii our nation 's capital just as they once lived in these jungles . |
| 5 | Realising that before another couple of days had passed , she and Sarah would be able to make the journey Kirkbymoorside and book them two inside seats on the Leeds coach . |
| 6 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 7 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 8 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 9 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 10 | Mr Symington had reached compacts with some of the tribes , allowing them 250 machines each , when the larger tribes took him to court to try to get more . |
| 11 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 12 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 13 | plus something , and an seven times that one would give you minus pass onto that , then twenty four times twenty four is five hundred and seventy six , I square , for it 's minus I square , minus formula cos then when I add to add I get six hundred and twenty five , it 's just , it 's one , you know like the three , four , five , triangle , in Pythagoras , yeah , you know , when you get three , four , five , and you can make them three squared , four squared , so is five squared , right , well , seven , twenty four , twenty five , is another one of those , right that 's how I knew seven , twenty four , I knew is six hundred and twenty five , that 's how I , that 's how I knew it 's . |
| 14 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd I was I was glad when they said no more can move into Green , cos I was thinking , Well my sister 's getting a house soon and my other sister she 's getting a house and I do n't want them two living round here as well cos the me mam and dad wo n't be able to see them either , you know if they move into the flats so I was glad . |
| 16 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 17 | He followed Carla into the kitchen and produced the coins for her to see , then started to flip them one by one . |
| 18 | As they sat in the kitchen , Jonadab glanced across at George and remarked , ‘ While we 're a bit slack afore haytime starts , Aah thought as 'ow thoo and me could deliver them two pairs of shires ti Stephen 's . ’ |
| 19 | Mark equal intervals upon a baseline and number them 0 , 1 , 2 , etc . |
| 20 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 21 | And after you rode them five , so many , twenty , I think it 's twenty , and then er er you 're knocked down to three . |
| 22 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 23 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'll be building them one day , I tell you , ’ he said softly . |
| 25 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
| 26 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 27 | Certainly , their scraping teen reveries and gleefully shambolic trashings of the likes of ‘ Fight For Your Right ’ and Barry Manilow 's ‘ Mandy ’ make them one of the most entertaining and , occasionally , promising prospects around , regardless of insularity . |
| 28 | Coral are unable to split the pair in ante-post betting for the title and make them 5–1 joint favourites . |
| 29 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 30 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |