Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [num ord] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 2 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 3 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |
| 4 | They spent the first ten minutes talking about Thomas Hardy , because Roger came from Dorset , and then Mr Baker read passages from the Kingman Report , which was still unpublished , and asked if Roger agreed . |
| 5 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 6 | Indeed , at the seminar at which they announced their discovery , I remember that they called the first four sources to be found LGM 1–4 , LGM standing for " Little Green Men . " |
| 7 | India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs . |
| 8 | They ran the first thousand words with me meandering on about going to meet Boy George as a cover feature . |
| 9 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |