Example sentences of "they were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 2 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 3 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 4 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 5 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 6 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 8 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 9 | erm Southwell centenary , which is next year if you recall , erm we 've at a previous meeting I raised this erm the point with councillors that next year is our centenary of our formation , we do n't have any archives unfortunately , er they were lost in the last sort of decade . |
| 10 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 11 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 12 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |
| 13 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |
| 14 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 15 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 16 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 17 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 18 | For instance , when the accountant produces the band 's first accounts , and files them with the Inland Revenue , the invoices for the band 's musical equipment may need to be produced so that the accountant may obtain tax relief for these items , although they were purchased in the first stage of a band 's life . |
| 19 | They were recovered in the first salvage expedition to the wreck since 1987 . |
| 20 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |
| 21 | Professional city-dwellers , they were experienced in the twentieth century . |
| 22 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 23 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 24 | In 1920 they were promoted to the First Division and got to their first Cup final , against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge , where they were beaten 1–0 . |
| 25 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 26 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 27 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 28 | It was the biggest body-blow the club had taken since they were dumped into the Second Division 20 years ago . |
| 29 | He wrote the opening and closing signature tunes for the program , but they were dumped after the first season and replaced with ‘ something a little more distinctive ’ . |
| 30 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |