Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun] [prep] 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 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 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 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 6 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 7 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 8 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 9 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 10 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 11 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 12 | Gooch and the England selectors meet in Manchester to choose their squad for the second Test at Lord 's , and Atherton 's place as Gooch 's opening partner is one of those up for discussion . |
| 13 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 14 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's a crippling burden , a bizarre , economically apocalyptic punishment on these presumptuous paupers for wanting to kickstart their economies into the 20th century . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The monitors , who meet to discuss their audits on the first Friday of every month , are : . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen what precise form of words are agreed by the 12 heads of government to express their commitment to the next stage of monetary union . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Alciston itself acted as the gathering place for surrounding parishes , and it was there that the wool merchants went to do their trading until the mid-fourteenth century . |
| 23 | I encourage other classical homœopaths to submit their work with the fifth millesimals for future publication and discussion in Homœotherapy . |
| 24 | Instead , he had been answering a barrage of questions from an invited audience of supporters , who passionately implored the amiable Irishman to guide their side into the Fourth Division . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1202 the Venetians persuaded the armies of Christendom to divert their attention from the Fourth Crusade to assist in the subjugation of Zadar , whose citizens had risen against Venice . |
| 27 | All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening . |
| 28 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 29 | Very few of those who were initially hostile to Eugénie were to change their opinion in the next 18 years , and in the case of some , only death ended an enduring aversion to the Empress . |
| 30 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |