Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop .
2 Mournfully they toured the two houses , acknowledging with a glance , a pat , or some reminiscence , every object that they loved .
3 Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests .
4 Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today .
5 After all , it was n't so long ago they had the THREE Arvedladze brothers bearing down on them in Dinamo Tbilisi shirts .
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