Example sentences of "five [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about five hours they could speak to each other on the radio , and Spencer asked the Islander pilot to flash his lights to establish contact . |
| 2 | Every five minutes they would cadge a Bisonte from me , or a Lucky Strike from Dana . |
| 3 | They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open . |
| 4 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 5 | And for about five minutes they rave about how flattered they are , a little bemused but clearly touched . |
| 6 | It was not a pleasant situation to deal with in a sea like that , but Sam issued his orders quickly and with complete confidence : the sail was lowered , a new sheet bent on , a reef taken , and the sail rehoisted , so that within the space of five minutes they were on their way again , and the Gribbin was drawing abeam . |
| 7 | In less than five minutes they were in the coach on their way to the address . |
| 8 | but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are . |
| 9 | W we still seem to debate certain things three , four and five times they creep their way through to the main committee and full council and I have to say that the point in para B about the report we 've been sent not recognising the reduction in local er government responsibilities it it is it 's a bit rich , because our response to that report does n't recognise that when I first arrived here Chairman we had the education department which was responsible for all the schools , six colleges of further education , college of art , college of agriculture , the teacher training college at and a major polytechnic . |
| 10 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 11 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 12 | In fact , if they had not scored those early five goals they would not have won . |
| 13 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
| 14 | This was later found to be untrue , as neither of her daughters nor her son received any schooling or tuition of any sort for the five weeks they were away . |
| 15 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 16 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 17 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 18 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 19 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 20 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 21 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 22 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 23 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 24 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 25 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 26 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 27 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 28 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 29 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 30 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |