Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 2 | In the sixteenth century they sought posts in estate administration , which brought a small fee to their holders but were probably more important as signs of royal favour and sources of patronage . |
| 3 | When the Spanish pioneers penetrated the interior of Colombia during the early sixteenth century they were impressed by what they took to be the passion of the Indians for the well-being of their dead . |
| 4 | As yet the numbers were modest , but late in the fourteenth century they became , in F. D. Logan 's words , ‘ a torrent ’ . |
| 5 | In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it ; in the second case they did not . |
| 6 | On the first measure the poor were becoming poorer , while on the second measure they were becoming richer , though not to ine same extent as the rich . |
| 7 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 8 | Under the second category they considered investigations by private detectives , industrial espionage , technical surveillance devices , and finally computers . |
| 9 | In one condition subjects were specifically instructed to engage in verbal rehearsal of these word pairs and in a second condition they were instructed to use visual imagery to relate the two objects . |
| 10 | On the second Saturday they took the train to London . |
| 11 | He and his wife decided not to put off having the second child they had planned , despite the financial uncertainty . |
| 12 | In the second column they insert the corresponding estimates for NAIRU which they had extracted from a variety of empirical studies . |
| 13 | Having taken the game to the Baa-Baas at the start of the second half they deserved their try by Damian Griffiths , although the revival was brief . |
| 14 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 15 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 16 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 17 | Swindon could have made double figures … with a little more accuracy and determination … but in the second half they eased back … the hard work had been done … |
| 18 | In the second half they pushed and pulled Bristol apart … the pack worked like a steamroller … and produced 4 tries … hooker John Hawker went over first … |
| 19 | Gascoigne replied within a minute with a close-range effort and as Lazio piled on the pressure in the second half they were rewarded with five minutes to go when Cristiano Bergodi headed home . |
| 20 | until the second half , in the second half they got |
| 21 | I 've got to , I 've got to admit the second half they were lucky our goalie produced four brilliant saves in about three minutes |
| 22 | In the second-half of the Second Test they recaptured their World Cup form and it will take a very good side to beat them this summer . |
| 23 | In the second session they reflected on how they could be a ‘ John the Baptist ’ for those of their own age group within the diocese and also in their parish . |
| 24 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |
| 25 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 26 | where plaintiff recovers costs of suing first plaintiff from second plaintiff they will be taxed on standard basis and not indemnity or solicitor and client basis . |
| 27 | In their second match they beat Northern Transvaals target of 222 for 2 , thanks to a second wicket partnership by Curtis and Weston . |
| 28 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 29 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 30 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |