Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 2 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 3 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 4 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 5 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 6 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 7 | Cutter crews based in the north usually see Fair Isle as a faint blur through misty rain or flying spray , or in darkness and fog as a characteristic shape on the radar screen as they try to beat the next gale to Shetland , or conversely , back to Orkney . |
| 8 | Conference organisers may well be cutting their own throats in the long run if they try to wring the last penny ( or cent ) out of the latest bandwagons . |
| 9 | That was a more reliable plan if they meant to catch the next flight . |
| 10 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 11 | And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well ! |
| 12 | Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing . |
| 13 | However , what many fail to realize is that they are already falling ; just because they 've passed the nineteenth floor without mishap does n't mean all will be well when ground zero is reached . |
| 14 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 15 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 16 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 17 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 18 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 19 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 20 | By the time they had reached the third field she was beginning to feel more at ease in the saddle . |
| 21 | They had waltzed the last waltz together , now the evening was over . |
| 22 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 23 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 24 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 25 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 26 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 27 | They had entered the Second World War opposed in attitude , and emerged little changed . |
| 28 | They continued to occupy the 4th Division 's Camp Evangalista headquarters in Cagayan de Oro , however , which Noble had designated his headquarters . |
| 29 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment at the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 30 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment to the clinic as soon as they arrive . |