Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end they agreed that the 120 commissioners should hold their meetings in the church of St-Castor at Koblenz , lodging each night on opposite sides of the Rhine " to forestall outbreaks of fighting between the commissioners ' men " . |
| 2 | They found that the two parents claim and defend a territory of a few square metres in the shallow stream in which they live . |
| 3 | They found that the two measures did not separately hold any predictive value , but in combination they discriminated well between families in which a child developed some schizophrenic symptoms and those whose child remained free of such symptoms . |
| 4 | They claimed that the two laboratory investigations performed on the painting since it was slashed with a Stanley knife in 1986 showed discrepancies which seriously undermined their validity . |
| 5 | On some occasions they made a response if the word and picture name sounded similar ; otherwise they decided whether the two stimuli were related in meaning . |
| 6 | They paused while the two players chose clubs for their second shots . |