Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that occasion , much of the room was in darkness , and the two gentlemen were sitting side by side midway down the table — it being much too broad to allow them to sit facing one another — within the pool of light cast by the candles on the table and the crackling hearth opposite . |
| 2 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 3 | Of course , our bullets arrive at the detector one by one and each of them has traversed one or other slit . |
| 4 | When my right hon. Friend is next in the duchy , will he make a point of meeting the management and employees of Coats Viyella and reassuring them that under the Conservative party in government there will be no question of a national minimum wage and that it will not be necessary for them to consider moving 10,000 employees — one third of its work force — to jobs abroad ? |
| 5 | You quoted David Griffiths saying that he had told the RAF Benevolent Fund that we would be ‘ pretty disappointed if they failed to raise one million pounds from the Marathon ’ . |
| 6 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 7 | Knowing both of them , I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better . |
| 8 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 9 | And why did they put on that charade with the fake bodies when they planned to send two live substitutes to England in the Renault ? ’ |
| 10 | They agreed to allow one of the workers in the battered wives ' home to go up there , when she arrived the house was in two feet of water — the pipes had burst . |
| 11 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 12 | A kestrel 's prey might be something as small as a beetle , and as they tend to hover twenty or thirty feet above the ground , their eyesight and the accuracy of their dive are both awe-inspiring . |
| 13 | ‘ What is advantageous about cheaper guitars is that they tend to have one sound , and when you plug 'em in you either like the sound or you do n't . |
| 14 | Although they tend to fit one pencil size only , there are rather more expensive holders available for use with wide pencils and industrial chalks which may be of some help to artists . |
| 15 | They recommended using three modes , as in CSE , and a single grading system , though with special papers in some subjects for pupils of low or high ability . |
| 16 | The rocking modes are locally antisymmetric , and so they combine to give four modes of a 1 , a 2 , b 1 , and b 2 symmetry . |
| 17 | Treasury officials say they want to save one billion pounds on defence , the opening demand in a vicious Whitehall battle . |
| 18 | all the things that 's like and ours , I say with ours they 're cutting back and cutting back all the time until I mean it 's under funded now , it 's under staffed already , thirty seven , thirty eight in the class , so what do they do now , they want to save seven million on education |
| 19 | Erm if the Liberals wants they want to stop seventy two point six er million but they seem to do rather than go to seventy three point three which is what they want to reach , what they want to look at originally . |
| 20 | We 've actually , we , we 've had a letter from them and they 're not , they want to knock two thousand one hundred |
| 21 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 22 | Together they helped attract 25,000 visitors last year . |
| 23 | They helped move three-and-a-half tons of soil into the garden . |
| 24 | They helped to bring six more people to safety in the town of Ballycastle . |
| 25 | They expect to sell 800,000 of their £70 Game Boys in Britain alone this year . |
| 26 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 27 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 28 | Yeah I , I , I think that er the , the , the M S Society have er er say that we 've got eighty thousand members in the United Kingdom , Great Britain , Northern Ireland only problem is they appear to have eighty thousand different conditions |
| 29 | Cowley shook his head , angrily stating , ‘ Dammit , Peter , they tried to kill one of my men . ’ |
| 30 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |