Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 2 | They fly home today without any punishment over our exposure of Aqib 's ball doctoring or Lamb 's revelation that they cheated during last weekend 's one-day international . |
| 3 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 4 | Just behind them in the table , following a fine win at home over David Lloyd Finchley , are the Walton Astro 's who leap-frog above the team they defeated in second place . |
| 5 | Durie and Bates lost their mixed doubles title in the quarter-final to the pair they defeated in last year 's final , Scott Davis and Robin White . |
| 6 | They moved into second place , underlining the fact they are a team of substance this season , thanks to a first half spectacular from keeper Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 7 | They rose to fifth place among arms exporters , helped perhaps by the embargoes constraining some competitor nations . |
| 8 | At the Manor Ground last night they lost to second division Swansea in a penalty shoot out … |
| 9 | They did for last year . |
| 10 | Based on a household with two adults — assuming no rebates or transitional relief — people in Lothian living in property valued at 58,000 and above will pay more under the Council Tax than they did under last year 's Community Charge . |
| 11 | Nobody loves you when you 're down and out and if United go down to Forest , as they did in last year 's sixth round , Ferguson may well be out . |
| 12 | LONG before they emerged in last year 's French Championship final as an intimidating three-headed monster , breathing fire and brimstone , the Bègles-Bordeaux from row of Simon , Moscato and Gimbert had acquired a rather unsavoury reputation as a hard , mean trio who took no prisoners and believed in the virtues of swift , unsophisticated retribution . |
| 13 | Instead they competed in last year 's European Cup , finishing fourth . |
| 14 | Some of them travelled in fifth class , which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort . |