Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bottle 1:2:6 3 Dozn & 8 Bottles porter 16:0 Cold drams 2:0 Glasses broke 10 @ 6d. each 5:0 1779 " Renews the order on the Committee respecting the ffees of dressing fflax & they to report to the next meeting . " |
| 2 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 3 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 4 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 5 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 6 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 7 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 8 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 9 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 10 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 11 | Nothing further was said either to or by our guests , and they drove off the next day with many felicitations and expressions of gratitude . |
| 12 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |
| 14 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |
| 15 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 16 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 17 | One hopes he will be rather keener to have play in marginal conditions if they arise during the next month . |
| 18 | But less than three hours after that , fifteen hundred footsoldiers of ours could be there , provided they start within the next half-hour . ’ |
| 19 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 20 | Pupils follow either the ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ road until they get to the next question . |
| 21 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 22 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 23 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 24 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 25 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 26 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 27 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 28 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 29 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 30 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |