Example sentences of "they [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 2 | Do n't go into the , this morning when she was doing activity she said ah , she said I I 've got them to spot ten similarities , ten differences , great ! |
| 3 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 4 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 5 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 6 | I ca n't see them keeping two stores on . |
| 7 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 8 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 9 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 10 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 11 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
| 12 | All we 've got ta do is stop them scoring twenty-six goals . ’ |
| 13 | Ministers believe reduced commitments in Europe and Hong Kong will allow them to axe 14 battalions . |
| 14 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 15 | The FA have already fined Birmingham £50,000 and ordered them to play two matches behind closed doors , both sentences suspended until the end of next season . |
| 16 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 17 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 18 | In the context of them doing 8 performances we were happy to pay them £120,000 . |
| 19 | To date , the Black Crowes ' track record includes album sales of over five million for their ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ debut , a Grammy nomination and two MTV Awards , while their first tour saw them performing 350 dates to a total audience of over five million people . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row . |
| 21 | The 53-year-old captain and his crew began their epic adventure to sail in the wake of Colummbus , at 8pm on Wednesday evening , but an injured crew member forced them to land two hours later 21 miles down the cost . |
| 22 | Member states will them have 18 months to transfer the directive 's requirements into national law . |
| 23 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 24 | The others include Western Areas , H. J Joel , South Deep and Lindum which between them produce 51.7 tons of gold . |
| 25 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
| 26 | The largest of them have lion mouths and a lion face on the base of the barrel ; these were cast in 1599 in Munich for Duke Maximilian I. Each of them weighs 7,225 lbs . |
| 27 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 28 | They met 11 years ago and married six months after Jim Henson 's death . |
| 29 | They met four years ago in the London run of the musical Godspell . |
| 30 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |