Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster would not allow them to go into the sixth form here . |
| 2 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 3 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 4 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 5 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 6 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 7 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 8 | This will force them to progress to the fifth stage of the information process . |
| 9 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 10 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 11 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 12 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 13 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 14 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 16 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 17 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 18 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 19 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 20 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 21 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 22 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 23 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 24 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 25 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 26 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 27 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 28 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 29 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 30 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |