Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the incumbent for Peterborough , the seat which , arithmetically , need to fall to Labour if they are to form the next government with an overall majority . |
| 2 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 3 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 4 | They fail to appreciate that all elderly people are constantly aware that they are approaching the last great event in their lives : their own death . |
| 5 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 6 | erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases . |
| 7 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 8 | but they did n't when they 're having the next one |
| 9 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 10 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 11 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 12 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 13 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 14 | They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes . |
| 15 | Men , I know , talk of such things with eagerness , with a little contempt ; it is as if they were describing the last meal they had , course by course . |
| 16 | Between them they were carrying the sixth figure — the limp , white faced form of Brett Grant . |
| 17 | They were saying the last time I heard them saying anything he was sort of going |
| 18 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |