Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The next entry lists 19 other women of rather higher legal status ( lidae ) : " All these women either make shirts of 8 alnae or they pay 4 pence . "
2 ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row .
3 Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal .
4 Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore .
5 At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out .
6 Helen got away for one day and they spent nine hours together in the open air .
7 His wife , whose name is not known , died before him , and they had one daughter .
8 In 1772 he married Agnes , daughter of Dr David Cockburn of Ayr , and they had one daughter .
9 His wife 's name was Catherine ( died 1756 ) , and they had one daughter .
10 I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition .
11 There were about thirty men and they had two prisoners .
12 You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city .
13 John and Elsie they were called , and they had two sons , Stanley and Gilbert .
14 In 1942 he married Eileen Cathcart , MRCOG , daughter of George Gibson Baird , engineer , of Tynemouth , and they had two sons and two daughters .
15 hell of a squeak of brakes and they had two vans and as you used to turn the corner by Swatons , the bollards are out
16 They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track .
17 Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys .
18 She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing .
19 They lived at Blankley Bath near Methringham and they had six children , John , Thomas , William , Joseph , Mary and Harriet .
20 A local man , known throughout his youth to be a steady worker , apprenticed to a mason , had married as soon as he came out of his apprenticeship , a girl from Rydal , nearby , and they had five children .
21 In 1570 she married William Smyth , embroiderer , and they had five children , two of whom were admitted to Christ 's Hospital .
22 Light lived with a Portuguese Eurasian , Martina Rozells , and they had five children , the eldest being William Light [ q.v. ] , the founder of Adelaide .
23 His 25-year-old wife Cornelia was born in Geneva , Switzerland , and they had four sons under five years old , all born at Wolverton .
24 On 8 July 1875 he married Mary Simson , daughter of John Somerville Johnston of Crailing Hall , Jedburgh , and they had four sons and one daughter .
25 So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here .
26 At an early age , Edward I had married Eleanor of Castile , and they had sixteen children ( nine died in infancy ) and they were devoted to each other .
27 I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window .
28 To Llaneilian to got to get it they got they got together and they got married and they had ten children .
29 It was where Fred Sowerby and his wife lived , and they had seven children , Teresa , Eric , Ruth , Gertie , Norman , Mabel and Pat .
30 She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) .
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