Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 2 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 3 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
| 4 | But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups . |
| 5 | They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more . |
| 6 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 7 | The Communists , in contrast , are likely to see their share of the vote fall from the 11 per cent they won in the last general election to around 8-9 per cent . |
| 8 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |