Example sentences of "[conj] their [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travelled to Mundemba , 230 kms west of the airport at Doula , where the WWF Park HQ is situated and where their first task awaited them . |
| 2 | She does n't get a newspaper and had to ask the social security for new shoes for the two children at school where their last pair of trainers got holes . |
| 3 | I simply ca n't stand whizz-kid City high-flyers who think of nothing but profit and loss accounts and their latest seven-series BMW and where their next magnum of Bollinger is coming from ! ’ |
| 4 | If someone were ill with starvation , it would be cruel and thoughtless to advise them to look after their spiritual life and not worry about where their next meal was coming from . |
| 5 | Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone . |
| 6 | Or their first live-in girlfriend taught them quickly . |
| 7 | In 1873 he married Janet Marshall ( only daughter of John Macfie of Edinburgh ) by whom he was to have five daughters , but , as the Indian climate suited neither her nor their first child , he returned to Scotland on leave and resigned in 1879 . |
| 8 | In these circumstances neither the metric coefficients nor their first derivatives have anything to say about curvature . |
| 9 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 10 | Further to Micheal Meacher 's article on the censorship of whistleblower ( ‘ Shut up or get out ’ , 1 May ) , nurses , midwives and health visitors are clearly enjoined by their regulatory body , the United Kingdom Central Council ( UKCC ) , that their first loyalty must be to their patients or clients . |
| 11 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 12 | Some realized that their first year savings were intrinsically ‘ once only ’ : ‘ We ca n't go generic every year , ’ said one lead clinician . |
| 13 | An appeal court later agreed that their first trial was ‘ wrong in law ’ , but upheld the death sentence . |
| 14 | That evening the new recruits to L Detachment were informed that their first operation was to steal their camp . |
| 15 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 16 | However , no-one would listen to us and the Dampness Group realised that their first task was to get evidence to prove their common sense approach . |
| 17 | In years to come , the children will be faced with the reality that their first photo session showed them crinkle-faced , bawling , yawning or just bored . |
| 18 | And he could put from him the treacherous suspicion that their first meeting had been contrived , part of a plan devised by her and Pascoe to exploit his influence with Hilary . |
| 19 | He was also ensuring that their first record , The Bride of Christ , would be out in a few weeks . |
| 20 | She was n't what you might call strict either , but she knew it would n't be right , that their last chance was to hold on until they were married , so that , however mean and poor it was , their marriage would have that at least to make it special . |
| 21 | The Repubblichini , too , knew that their last hour was near . |
| 22 | But teetotallers include people who are too ill to fancy a drink , and a smattering of ex-alcoholics who have been warned that their next drink may be their last . |
| 23 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 24 | As we said our goodbyes and hoped to meet up again soon , I could n't help thinking as I watched the column disappear in the distance that the Marines were not going to find the situation any easier than their last venue . |
| 25 | They panic when driven out into the open and their first thought is to find cover as quickly as they can . |
| 26 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 27 | Diabetic subjects and their first degree relatives form a suitable population in which to examine the relation between birth weight and the development of impaired glucose tolerance and non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 28 | After the divorce he married her again under his real name at St. Mildred 's , Bread Street , London and their first child , Sophia , was born in July 1792 . |
| 29 | The miniaturist John Hoskins the Younger married Grace Beaumont in February 1669/70 and their first child , a boy , was born in 1670/71 . |
| 30 | They were married in 1985 and their first child , Katie , was born last year . |