Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second Saturday they took the train to London . |
| 2 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 3 | On the fourth day they reached the depot at 80° South . |
| 4 | Under the first category they considered the intrusive gathering and dissemination of information by the publicity media , the handling of credit information , unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters at work and in education and medicine , prying by neighbours and landlords , and intrusive sales methods . |
| 5 | As a first experiment they improved the lighting for the test group and were pleased to find that productivity improved , but puzzled to find that productivity also improved in the control group . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 7 | On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten . |
| 8 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 9 | But think how they marvelled then , the first time they glimpsed the grandiose space architecture of the Eladeldi , or the shining needle , a kilometre long , of the Vespa Omicron . |
| 10 | With mounting importunity these classes demanded political power to match their economic power , and through the greater part of the nineteenth century they challenged the political authority of the landed aristocracy … |
| 11 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 12 | Last Winter they suffered the worst floods for fifty years , with some homes being hit three times . |
| 13 | The next day they took the plane back to Oklahoma City . |
| 14 | The next day they found the courage to collect Lizzie 's ashes and bring them home . |
| 15 | But last night they produced the sort of display that has taken them to Wembley . |
| 16 | For the last week they had the company of Violet Anstruther , which Lily found trying , although it perked Alice up . |
| 17 | And last week they cancelled the Danny Baker show because of it . |
| 18 | Last season they won the junior Grand Slam and overwhelmed England 32–3 at Fylde , while two years ago a side containing Scott Gibbs and Neil Jenkins won 12–6 at Wrexham . |
| 19 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 20 | Last season they lost the Provincial Insurance Cup to Bradford Salem . |
| 21 | By dusk Lynmouth had been reached , and next morning they went the short distance to the Valley of the Rocks , a strange and desolate dry valley running parallel to the coast and bordered by great castellated tors of rock . |
| 22 | At six next morning they heard the treasure being discovered . |
| 23 | Next morning they attended the Requiem Mass for their dead colleague who had been dressed by the monks for burial and now lay in a new pine coffin in front of the sanctuary steps of the abbey church . |
| 24 | The next thing they heard the report of a gun , really loud . |
| 25 | Last year they reached the semis at Wimbledon , also unseeded . |
| 26 | When Labour took control of the council last year they promised the scheme would be in place by Easter 1992 . |
| 27 | Last year they won the premier award at the Welsh Festival of Light Opera , and have carried off more than 60 awards from the World Famous Waterford International Festival of Light Opera . |
| 28 | Last year they won the senior division championship for a club which won another five trophies . |
| 29 | Last weekend they won the HDM tournament in The Hague for the first time while Karen Brown , Mary Nevill , Sandy Lister and Tracy Fry were engaged on outdoor commitments . |
| 30 | ‘ Last Christmas they brought the children over from the nursery school . |