Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 2 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 3 | As they passed between the two pillars along the path by which they had entered , the Wheel cleared with plenty of room to spare . |
| 4 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 6 | They stopped at the Three Tuns tavern to ensure their horses had been well stabled . |
| 7 | Goldman 's defence was that , as a market-maker in MCC shares , it was exempted from having to disclose its holdings , even though they rose above the 3 p.c. threshhold above which investors other than market-makers must make public disclosure . |
| 8 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 9 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 10 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 11 | Slater and Woodside found that the couples they interviewed in the 1940s showed ‘ a mutual liking canalised by prudential and social considerations ’ . |
| 12 | They drove past the two figures and Terry sounded his horn that played the first few bars of the Star Spangled Banner . |
| 13 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 14 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 15 | Stone recurrences in five patients are believed to be the result of residual stones as they reformed by the six month follow up examination and each of the post procedure contrast studies had shown a filling defect in the neck of the gall bladder or cystic duct . |
| 16 | They suffered in the 1989–90 ambulance dispute . |
| 17 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 18 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 19 | Celtic are in no hurry to sell , and if they continue the form they showed in the 3-0 victory over Hibernian at Easter Road they will be quite happy not to have any calls from potential buyers at least until the end of the season . |
| 20 | And as they walked around the 230 acre farm , all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas , they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful . |
| 21 | The team they fielded in the 1927 final included eight internationals . |
| 22 | The distinctive features of concentration , conglomeration and internationalization as they developed into the 1980s can perhaps be described as their scope , scale , management , balance and volatility . |
| 23 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 24 | Mr Tommy Brennan , stewards ' convenor , says they worked during the 1984-1985 miners strike — incurring the wrath of the NUM — after management warned that any cool down would threaten the works . |
| 25 | Renault feel comfortable with the hatched style that they started with the 16 and developed into a smooth aerodynamic shape with the 25 . |
| 26 | Walking along the empty platform , away from the empty train , they felt like the four last people on earth . |
| 27 | These candidates simply vomited over the page everything they knew upon the two topics ; they made no attempt to bring their knowledge into relation with the question , and did not even divide off their answer by the ( a ) and ( b ) of the question . |
| 28 | New Zealand rugby and the All Blacks were not quite protected by the armour-plating they wore in the two years after the 1987 World Cup triumph , but the Irish would pay testimony to the fact that the All Blacks had become a very hard bunch of men by the end of their tour . |
| 29 | Two men were seen running from the area , and one witness said they looked like the two accused . |
| 30 | We would suggest that in times of economic crisis and recession several of these conditions are indeed likely to predominate and that in fact they did during the 1980s in the UK . |