Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 2 | I was told later by the Flight Sergeant that they counted five cannon and thirty 7.62mm holes in the machine . |
| 3 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 4 | Now , the directorate 's chief , Helge Vikan , claims wolves are increasing , that they total 18 animals , and that a viable , breeding population may already exist near Vegarshei . |
| 5 | It is the place which our neighbours find so fascinating that , in spite of our invitation to enter the living room , they say , ‘ I wo n't stay a moment ’ , but find that they stay thirty minutes ! |
| 6 | The Air Ministry firmly believed that fundamentally it was a question of pure navigation , and furthermore they were convinced that they knew one man who could lead such a formation to meet the planned Bomber Force envisaged by the Chiefs of Staff — but he was not even in the RAF , He was a professional Imperial Airways pilot with an international reputation — a host of " firsts " in world aviation events and , even more importantly , he was an outstanding navigator . |
| 7 | And I mind her saying that they had nine men once from North Ronaldsay . |
| 8 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 9 | They discovered that they had one area of 4 m 2 and two of 3 m 2 . |
| 10 | And Eva , the smaller one , argued with Janice that they had two cars . |
| 11 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 12 | to the staff then that they volunteer one night and we do thir , and wa , you would come up once a week every thirty two weeks to man the library one night a week |
| 13 | Attacks on Eugénie reached such a pitch that they provoked one lady to remark : ‘ This unfortunate Empress has been so dragged through the mud that one feels almost compelled to defend her — on grounds of Christian charity alone . ’ |
| 14 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 15 | N , that is not on religious grounds either that is because I just think that they work six days they should have a day off anyway . |
| 16 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 17 | Miss Chadwick added that they sing two services a week and in addition perform larger choral works in the concerts they stage once or twice a term . |
| 18 | When the elections were held in September , 1956 , the P.N.M. were the only party out of the seven running to contest all 24 constituencies , with the result that they won 13 seats ( later rising to 14 ) and polled 39% of the vote . |
| 19 | Did you know that they do 64 hours on the Filtonbased simulator ? |
| 20 | The Lollipop timetable of one night stands meant that they visited seventy-two venues in twelve weeks ; although they did not venture further than St. Louis , it was exhausting and afterwards they could remember very little about each town . |
| 21 | Eventually the family decided that they needed two contracts , one between James and Avril , the other between Anne and her parents . |
| 22 | The thing that worries me about scientists is that they say one thing one day — like cholesterol is bad for you — and another thing the next day . ’ |
| 23 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 24 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 25 | On the return of No. 16 to Sutton , the remainder of the J type were sent to Hendon one at a time and similarly rebuilt , except that they retained four windows . |
| 26 | They were specialists , too , in that they favoured one type of war , that of surprise in which the dawn raid was more effective than the siege . |
| 27 | I point out the difference as many people with mental health problems are now being cared for in the community and I feel that the community needs to understand these people rather than doubly stigmatise them by thinking that they have two illnesses rather than one . |
| 28 | Contrary to popular myth , many men can remember those small but important details about the women in their lives , such as their birthday and the fact that they have two eyes , one on each side of their nose , probably browny-blue ( the eyes , not the nose ) . |
| 29 | MI5 and Special Branch also open mail illegally and break into so many properties that they have one section that does nothing else . |
| 30 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |