Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] their [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 2 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 3 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 4 | The problems with the gearboxes of the 141s , 142s and 143s were well publicised as the 1980s drew into their second half . |
| 5 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 6 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 7 | Mark Wright , John Barnes , Ian Rush and David Burrows were all missing as Liverpool crashed to their second defeat in four days . |
| 8 | DARLINGTON 'S hopes of remaining in the Third Division were dealt a severe blow in London last night when they crashed to their eleventh away defeat of the season . |
| 9 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 11 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 12 | After Clough headed wide from a curling Orlygsson cross five minutes after the interval , Everton scored with their first attack of the second half . |
| 13 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 14 | Devonshire House registered a 3-2 home success over leaders Village Eagle , while Brookhouse right-back Mark Brown and centre back Mark McNally scored in their third division 2-1 home win against High Oaks . |
| 15 | Their goal , in the 46th minute , came from their first shot on target , and it was a real sickener for a Linfield defence who otherwise were as solid as a rock . |
| 16 | Fairbrother went on to hit an unbeaten 64 and Lancashire roared to their third Benson & Hedges Cup Final in four years as Wasim Akram destroyed Leicestershire . |
| 17 | BANGOR 'S heroic team flew out of Cyprus today reflecting on how close they came to their first win in European competition . |
| 18 | On September 14 , 1989 , the 401st Bomb Group arrived for their first annual reunion to be held in England . |
| 19 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 20 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a sadist , ’ said Ricky as the waiter arrived with their first course . |
| 22 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 23 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 24 | And yet the matter was quickly screened out as Pakistan set out to secure the piffling 138 needed for their second Test victory at Lord 's . |
| 25 | From Bailey 's first thrust to Simon Smith 's closing dig there was only one side in it as Bedford stumbled to their fourth defeat in five matches . |
| 26 | Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 1728 , only 40 per cent survived to their second birthday . |
| 27 | THE First Division promotion race was thrown wide open last night when Kilmarnock slumped to their second successive league defeat . |
| 28 | Buckley earned their first win of the season scoring 175–2 as bottom of the table Wrexham slumped to their eighth defeat in eight games only managing 80–5 . |
| 29 | Kenny Dalglish has spent over £5 million on eight players to strengthen Rovers this season , but there was little evidence of improvement as they slumped to their fourth successive defeat . |
| 30 | SCARBOROUGH slumped to their third successive defeat against Maidstone to leave their season virtually in ruins . |