Example sentences of "they [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 2 | But relief workers who rescued them say the next challenge is to ensure they do n't suffer psychologically from what they have witnessed . |
| 3 | I can have them fried the next day . |
| 4 | Asking them to recount the last incidence of the problem behaviour often helps . |
| 5 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 6 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 7 | ORGANISERS of the Northern Bank Primary mini-rugby tournament are looking for ‘ forgotten ’ players to help them celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Ravenhill finals on June 19 . |
| 8 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 9 | The Council wants to make out that you 've got to let them have the first option |
| 10 | But I could n't let them have the last letter . |
| 11 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 12 | Those who search for something and never find it become dispirited or cynical and eventually it becomes very hard to motivate them to climb the next hill . |
| 13 | Five thousand of them covered the last mile of the march through the Berkshire fields in silence , despite the coldest and wettest Easter for forty years . |
| 14 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 15 | Please help them go the last mile , by sending as much as you can . |
| 16 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 17 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 18 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 19 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 20 | When not busy whipping crowds to a frenzy ( but more of the Skin 2 Rubber Ball later ) , they became the first band to play the newly re-opened Stone Pony Club in Asbury Park , New Jersey where , of course , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN first launched his career . |
| 21 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 22 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 23 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 24 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 25 | Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and , as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost . |
| 26 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 27 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 28 | As they passed the third cave , the golden bee flew out of the woman 's sleeve , and they saw the lightning flash and heard the thunder crack behind them . |
| 29 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 30 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |