Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 2 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 3 | I know my Spencer ancestors built their wealth in the sixteenth century on the rearing of sheep , and I believe one of the benefits of receiving the Freedom of the City is that Freemen , or Women , are able to drive sheep across London Bridge and through the City of London . |
| 4 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 5 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 6 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 7 | But after a topsy-turvy match at Midgley Park it was the Swifts who booked their place in the second round , running out winners . |
| 8 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 9 | Town lifted their game in the second half with Phil Whelan and Eddie Youds snuffing out any threat . |
| 10 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 11 | By law they have to ballot their members in the next couple of years on whether they can keep their political funds , through which they give money to the party . |
| 12 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 13 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 14 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 15 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 16 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 17 | NOVA staged a battling fightback to book their place in the third round of the Wirral FA Sunday Premier Cup with a thrilling 5-4 victory over Hope Farm S.H . |
| 18 | They certainly fancied their chances in the next event : swimming . |
| 19 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 20 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 21 | Gayle made it 2–0 with a sweet 36th-minute volley , but the visitors lost their way in the second period . |
| 22 | After supplying his sixth goal of the season , Shaughnessy forced Beasley into a full length save yet Runcorn completely lost their way in the second half . |
| 23 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 24 | Ballyclare restored their lead in the 55th minute when promising Adrian Moore broke clear on the right and crossed for James Beattie to tap home the second goal . |
| 25 | JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER and PHILIP ROBINSON continue their series in the first of two articles on breeding Central American Cichlids . |
| 26 | A tendency to absorb smaller houses and to engage in a conscious policy of territorial expansion appears to have marked their behaviour in the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 27 | After a generation in which we can detect only rather humdrum work in the Kerameikos , the Athenians established their supremacy in the second quarter of the century . |
| 28 | The stragglers took their seats in the second half of the train . |
| 29 | Some others , however , like the earl of Sandwich , sent their sons in the first instance to the local grammar school . |
| 30 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |