Example sentences of "they be [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one says that they are both in the second row you will know they are on the two n's of nomen . |
| 2 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 3 | They are mainly of the fourth , fifth and sixth centuries B.C. and illustrate episodes and customs in Etruscan life . |
| 4 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |
| 5 | Well they 're just like the first one . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're both on the second floor now . |
| 7 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 8 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 9 | They were now into the next lecture period , the last before lunch , and the campus had quietened down again . |
| 10 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 11 | They were behind throughout the second half against Bromley , but the lethal shooting of Kulbir Takher saved them . |
| 12 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 13 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 14 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |