Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 2 | After their marriage they amalgamated the two operations , and formed the F and B chain . |
| 3 | The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats . |
| 4 | They checked the two men as they left the air transporter . |
| 5 | Following the evident success of No. 16 , 1–15 were sent away in turn to Hendon and similarly treated , except that they retained the four window arrangement and classification ‘ Type J ’ . |
| 6 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 7 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 8 | They found the Three Cranes tavern at the corner of an alleyway just opposite St Mary Le Bow . |
| 9 | . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop . |
| 10 | They used the 12 month deposit rate for local authorities as their estimate of the riskless rate of return and the FT 650 index as a proxy for the market portfolio . |
| 11 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 12 | They condemned the three year sentence as ‘ totally inadequate ’ . |
| 13 | At an inquiry , the stewards considered both riders guilty of intentional interference , and as well as banning the pair , they disqualified the two horses concerned and promoted Love Returned to fourth place . |
| 14 | They immobilised the 26 babies of the herd and took them away by helicopter , and the government ‘ very reluctantly ’ shot the rest of the elephants . |
| 15 | They reduced the three seat constituencies from 26 to 13 , and increased the four-seaters from 10 to 13 and the five-seaters from six to 15 . |
| 16 | They faced the 1968 Immigration Act . |
| 17 | In 1982 , when he requested an export licence , they evoked the 1941 law , passed by the collaborationist Vichy regime , restricting the export of ‘ national heritage ’ works of art . |
| 18 | ‘ They linked the two names , interpreting the setting in Gaul as Gaullist propaganda , even though there was no intended connection . |
| 19 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 20 | ‘ Agnes , as Johnnie said , was always the masterful one , ’ she murmured , as they climbed the two flights of the torchlit turnpike stair . |
| 21 | CCG Catering staff in Bridge of Allan suffered after they walked the ten miles from Bridge of Allan to Menstrie and back to raise money for Forth Valley Health Board . |
| 22 | When they arrived , they discovered the five Scots in various stages of alcoholic disrepair . |
| 23 | ENGLAND 's women had no problem retaining the Triple Crown when they followed the 13–2 defeat of Scotland last week with a 10–0 victory over Wales at Birmingham on Saturday . |
| 24 | The service power to view panelled view was that the three point nine million pounds was effectively a minimum exceptionable level and it was within this figure they required the one point six million on minor works and footways to be increased to two million pounds for nineteen ninety three ninety four , section three concludes that it will not be appropriate to attempt to finance these extra loan charges on a continuing basis on the fixed revenue budget , as they would each year and on an accum accumulative basis consume some three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 25 | Much to the dismay of the missionary , they placed the two cups on the top of their heads and fastened the straps under their chins . |
| 26 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
| 27 | They watched the three girls pair off with their brothers and go off in different directions . |
| 28 | ‘ That was lucky , ’ Blake said , as they watched the three prisoners escape from the dungeon . |
| 29 | The case of Doctor Faustus exemplifies how we can not be sure which version of the play was the more common experience of audiences and whether they understood the two versions as offering something markedly different or not . |
| 30 | And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’ |