Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 2 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 3 | Friday and Saturday they 've got twenty five percent off everything in the shop . |
| 4 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 5 | But police said children had ignored them and even as rescue workers left the scene they had to warn two more boys who were about to go out on to the ice . |
| 6 | said er , they said Wrexham they 've got two or three you know mu museums for , and that different halls he said er |
| 7 | a couple of days they seem to have two big sellers on as well and then one , one day |
| 8 | Over the past three years they have turned one of the most dishonourable Soviet professions into something worthy of admiration . |
| 9 | and it was windy right , he got a tree a third of the height of that on a table , they puts it up on a table , and underneath the tree they have got one present which is member of the family from each member of the family , right , that is it , one present , it maybe a box of chocolates , you know , or a box of cigars , something like that , children wake up Christmas morning they have a bag which is about that big , with a full of sweets and bits and pieces , little toy car thing and they have one big present , right , and I 'll tell you what festivity over there is as well , that must , it because it 's not over dark because there no big glory about it , there so much more relaxed that , well Chris he said , yeah |
| 10 | In the main survey , people were asked to say which types of credit they thought matched 12 different statements of attitude ( see Appendix I , Tables 12a and 13b ) . |
| 11 | In under a minute they 'd made two sharp lefts and a squealing right , and were roaring down a back street so narrow the least miscalculation would have taken off handles , hubs and mirrors . |
| 12 | By midnight they had answered two further calls : another ‘ mickey ’ and a call of good intent which turned out to be an automatic fire alarm . |
| 13 | Westminster Abbey owned , or had a part interest in , twenty-three of the houses involved , in Crown Street , Crown Court and King Street , and by the time of the second schedule they had sold five of these to a private owner . |
| 14 | For by the end of the week they had produced 29 warm leads — 14 more than their usual monthly target . |
| 15 | Although the simplicity of these pavements renders them less informative than many other arrangements they do present one of the clearest pictures in Britain of a uniformity in general design . |
| 16 | By their definition they had achieved three important end results : ( 1 ) the patient is allowed to define the nature of his feelings , ( 2 ) the doctor is relieved of the responsibility of finding tissue damage , ( 3 ) there is no conceivable way in which a baby or an animal could tell you that it was having an ‘ unpleasant sensory and emotional experience ’ . |
| 17 | They only have to look at Thames 's shares to see what life might mean under Labour : since the start of March they have fallen 13 per cent to 333p . |
| 18 | In addition they had to investigate three hundred and eighty eight sexual offences , nine hundred and twenty eight robberies , three thousand and ninety seven burglaries , two thousand eight hundred and sixty two cases of fraud and thirty seven thousand five hundred and eighty two cases of theft . |
| 19 | And they said he never said much to them , well he perhaps did n't , he would n't do because he was like that you see , but pra before interviewing him on television , er of course the War came and India was given freedom , and er there used to be you know the Sweet people who used to have a big factory on Road , was a very famous sweet in them days , I do n't think they are now , but was a very good sweet firm , and they 'd got a daughter cos she was in the , during the War the Anglo-Soviet Friendship er she was one of the course they 'd got hundreds but she was one . |
| 20 | And erm the girls they have gotten four hundred and twenty four cans and the boys have gotten two hundred and sixty eight and altogether we 're collecting nine hundred and ninety five cans with the whole school . |
| 21 | Then with love they had explored one another 's bodies with hands that were urgent , yet full of tenderness , each touch a declaration of the joy that possessed them , each kiss an unspoken protestation of love . |
| 22 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 23 | In a recent commission to make art for a new Manhattan high school they decided to embed hundreds of transparent glass bricks filled with artifacts from around the world in the walls of the public corridors . |
| 24 | To date they have undertaken four conversions , with others reportedly underway . |
| 25 | Er on the horses that 's understandable , they can start off and probably do n't knock theirself but there 's a time they 'd done twenty or thirty mile pulling a load . |
| 26 | It was the first time they had conceded four goals at home since the Manchester United of Charlton , Law and Best rammed four past them in 1969 . |
| 27 | It was the ninth time they had passed 50 points this season , and David Johnson took his tally past 400 with three penalties , a drop goal and three conversions . |
| 28 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 29 | I mean I mean well in their house they 've got two bedrooms |
| 30 | But in it , it 's wicked , in that , in that cupboard they 've got two pairs of really good walking boots , when Kay saw them she said it 's not their feet , because you see she had the cubs there right from the beginning |