Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 2 | ‘ It has n't been made public , but the kidnappers have said they 'll kill the girl if they do n't have what they want by the eleventh of October . ’ |
| 3 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 4 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 5 | The same writer , using the same mix of ink , also headed several of the vocal numbers with the page numbers on which they appear in the second volume of Orpheus Britannicus , published in 1702 . |
| 6 | Consumers equate the gross price to the value of the marginal benefit they receive from the last film , but producers equate the marginal cost of films to the lower net-of-tax price of films . |
| 7 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 8 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 9 | On Tuesday , they embark on the first of their midweek league fixtures , at home to Alresford with a 6 p.m. kick-off . |
| 10 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 11 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 12 | With little possibility of much fulfilment in this world , they look to the next ; they are for ever visiting temples and mosques ( for this they are required to revert to their male clothes ) and going on pilgrimage to Hindu and Muslim shrines over the subcontinent . |
| 13 | They meet on the last Tuesday of the month at 8pm at Stokesley Sports Club . |
| 14 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 15 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 16 | After hours of learning to hook the ball from the tee , when they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade . |
| 17 | By the time they get to the fourth form there are very few black pupils who are not mingling largely with black pupils . |
| 18 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |
| 19 | Pupils follow either the ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ road until they get to the next question . |
| 20 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 21 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |
| 22 | Oh if that 's one 's five then they go to the next on e after that , which is seven . |
| 23 | Colin suggested they go into the next room to dance ; she agreed . |
| 24 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
| 25 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 27 | They date from the last ten years when an interest in colour , triggered by a visit to Egypt in 1982 , assumed a dominant position in her work . |
| 28 | One hopes he will be rather keener to have play in marginal conditions if they arise during the next month . |
| 29 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 30 | I think they start on the eighteenth |