Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 2 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 10 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 11 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 12 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 14 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 15 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |
| 16 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 17 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 18 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 19 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 20 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 21 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 22 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 23 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 24 | They stopped in the next village two miles away . |
| 25 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 26 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |
| 27 | They moved into the next room and sat down to dinner . |
| 28 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |
| 29 | They staggered through the second act . |
| 30 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |