Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 2 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 3 | It would be helpful to the planning committee if Q.T. could let us know their views on the last year 's programme . |
| 4 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 5 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 6 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 7 | The workers made their comments at the tenth anniversary conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions held last week in London . |
| 8 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 9 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 10 | Constant harassment and predation on their breeding grounds by fishermen reduced their stocks during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; the last individuals were killed by man in 1844 . |
| 11 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 12 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 13 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 14 | The Chorley Machine Knitting Club hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month , 7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Astley Village Community Centre , Nr Chorley . |
| 15 | The Ivel Machine Knitters Club hold their meetings on the second Thursday of every month from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at The Labour Hall , . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's a crippling burden , a bizarre , economically apocalyptic punishment on these presumptuous paupers for wanting to kickstart their economies into the 20th century . |
| 18 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 19 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 20 | They were also able to make site visits to major Japanese industrial research centres , including Electro-Technical Laboratory , Fujitsu , Hitachi , Mitsubishi , Nec and Sony , to discuss their activities within the Fifth Generation Programme and see demonstrations of some of the deliverables . |
| 21 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He came up with them as they followed their tee-shots up the 2nd fairway . |
| 26 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 27 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 28 | They certainly fancied their chances in the next event : swimming . |
| 29 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 30 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |