Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the evident success of No. 16 , 1–15 were sent away in turn to Hendon and similarly treated , except that they retained the four window arrangement and classification ‘ Type J ’ . |
| 2 | They used the 12 month deposit rate for local authorities as their estimate of the riskless rate of return and the FT 650 index as a proxy for the market portfolio . |
| 3 | They condemned the three year sentence as ‘ totally inadequate ’ . |
| 4 | They reduced the three seat constituencies from 26 to 13 , and increased the four-seaters from 10 to 13 and the five-seaters from six to 15 . |
| 5 | They faced the 1968 Immigration Act . |
| 6 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
| 7 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 8 | After all , it was n't so long ago they had the THREE Arvedladze brothers bearing down on them in Dinamo Tbilisi shirts . |