Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 2 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 3 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , they got in first , but you were planning to . |
| 5 | Photocopies or even originals of the News of the World , if they remain from last Sunday , are no substitute for evidence being placed before the Home Secretary so that appropriate action could be taken . |
| 6 | ‘ V2s ’ continued to arrive , however , until all the launching sites were overrun by the advancing Allied troops , but they ceased on 28th . |
| 7 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 8 | They fly home today without any punishment over our exposure of Aqib 's ball doctoring or Lamb 's revelation that they cheated during last weekend 's one-day international . |
| 9 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 10 | Whatever will they think of next ? ’ |
| 11 | What will they think of next ? |
| 12 | Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets , they rank as first editions in book form . |
| 13 | Just behind them in the table , following a fine win at home over David Lloyd Finchley , are the Walton Astro 's who leap-frog above the team they defeated in second place . |
| 14 | Durie and Bates lost their mixed doubles title in the quarter-final to the pair they defeated in last year 's final , Scott Davis and Robin White . |
| 15 | Their absence cost ‘ Quins , who lost 25–14 , a victory which enhanced the Saints ’ title ambitious as they moved to third in the table , one point behind leaders Orrell . |
| 16 | They moved into second place , underlining the fact they are a team of substance this season , thanks to a first half spectacular from keeper Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 17 | What direction they moved in next was up to them . |
| 18 | They rose to fifth place among arms exporters , helped perhaps by the embargoes constraining some competitor nations . |
| 19 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 20 | They reported on 19th October , 1854 that subsidence had occurred in the eastern part of the Foreign Office necessitating a new foundation and rebuilt front wall . |
| 21 | They range from 13th century ruins , to 20th century replacements . |
| 22 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 23 | Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there |
| 24 | A. R. They came at last . |
| 25 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 26 | They came at last , in the warm Sunday stillness , to the broad avenues of central Berlin . |
| 27 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 28 | Yes welcome to Talking Sport , good evening , tonight 's headlines ; a disappointing result at the Manor as Oxford United outplay Charlton , especially in the first half , but concede a goal late on to finish as a one all draw , and they drop to eighteenth in the table . |
| 29 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 30 | Outrageous they seem at first . |