Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |
2 | The 6 hour 45 minute trip took them to Amiens , Mannheim , Kitzingen , Wurzburg , Frankfurt , Brussels , Wing and then back to base . |
3 | NatWest is to contact its 5 million cardholders to tell them about the problem . |
4 | Instead , they sensibly decided to avoid disputes and differences by jointly employing one average adjuster to advise them on how the loss should be apportioned and agreed to accept and act on his advice . |
5 | Warwickshire unsurprisingly lost to Notts in their first four-day game but Smith 's five first-innings wickets kept them in the game until the final day . |
6 | Then they would bring their talons forward and reach their beaks out and in one swift movement crash them on the surface of the still lake , and out of the splashing spray caused by their wings as they beat to gain height again they would rise struggling with a fish in their talons . ’ |
7 | Now the pace of life is a little slower for Leslie and Helena although having raised three children , two girls and a boy , they now have six grandchildren and five great grandchildren to keep them on their toes . |
8 | This well-meaning attempt to steer clear of one awkward topic landed them in the midst of another . |
9 | One particular incident brought them into focus , an incident over which I puzzled , on and off , for a long time , but which is amenable to analysis using current sociological notions . |
10 | The couple were both shoved and jostled as around one hundred demonstrators greeted them with jeers and shouts in Bolton , Lancashire . |
11 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
12 | Pulling his coat open , he pushed his hand into his trouser pocket , and taking out two half crowns dropped them into the tin . |
13 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
14 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
15 | They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her . |