Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 4 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 6 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 11 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 12 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 13 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 16 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They stopped in the next village two miles away . |
| 19 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They moved into the next room and sat down to dinner . |
| 22 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |
| 23 | They staggered through the second act . |
| 24 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 25 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 26 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 27 | They played throughout the second half in peeved mood , allowing Blackburn to assume the dictating role with Gordon Cowans prompting from midfield and Speedie in predatory form up front . |
| 28 | In their first match , at home to Bashley , they equalised in the 88th minute . |
| 29 | In their first match , at home to Bashley , they equalised in the 88th minute . |
| 30 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |