Example sentences of "they [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
2 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
3 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
4 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
5 | Their route will take them 230 miles across the Nares Straight towards west Greenland . |
6 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
7 | Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance . |
8 | They 're about , that that makes them nineteen points in the lead . |
9 | Allow them three swings with the stick . |
10 | Moors are closing the gap steadily on the leading teams , and three points today could lift them three places into fifth . |
11 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
12 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
13 | We ask them to read the policy , we explain bits in the booklet , we ask them to telephone us if there 's anything they 're not happy with or they 're unsure about and we will clarify that , and also we do give them fourteen days in which to cancel , so if if once they 've actually got the policy , if they 're not happy with it , or they 're not happy with the answers that we give , then they 're more than happy we 're more than happy to refund . |
14 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
15 | I recall those things because of their typicality : this is what the English and Welsh grammar schools were like , and ( more surprisingly ) were still like when I began to teach in them ten years after the 1944 Act . |
16 | I had at Carrans Cort blown down 30 great ealmes which had in them 50 tunes of timber . ’ |
17 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
18 | So twelve , I mean if you can remember them twelve stands for four beats in a bar anyway |
19 | I think we just we should stick to er giving them five chances for their . |
20 | Talking of the whip I mean we 're only allowed to hit them five times over here . |
21 | I realize that , you know I would say five of them five people in both departments champion of champions let's hope that it never happens again , you know , these things do happen . |
22 | You can catch them 8 December at the Old Athenaeum , Glasgow ( 041-227-5511 ) , 9 December at the Music Hall , Aberdeen ( 0224-641-122 ) and 10 December at the Queens Hall , Edinburgh ( 031-668-2019 ) . |
23 | Th th the the advancement on the exercise is to make them one sentence by using , yes , you could use a conjunction if you were going to make it into one sentence . |
24 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
25 | do n't forget when they 're added when they 're added you can do them one bit at a time . |
26 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
27 | We give them one period in the year of intense stimulation . ’ |
28 | Give 'em three months on a load of good grub and you wo n't know 'em . ’ |
29 | Cos he 's got them four headlights with |
30 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |