Example sentences of "they [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 2 | They qualified 17th and 20th and were both out of the race within 15 laps . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 4 | Members of Darlington Health Authority praised ‘ fantastic ’ waiting list cuts when they met last week . |
| 5 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 6 | They remain third from bottom with Oxford , who have played one less game , now just one point behind . |
| 7 | For twelve years , until the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 , they lived first in County Mayo and then in Rutledge Terrace , Salthill , about a mile from the centre of Galway . |
| 8 | They lived next to the church in a peaceful village . |
| 9 | In those days they lived next door but now they 've only got their offices there . |
| 10 | Whose call must be the only they obey first : their husband 's ? |
| 11 | They agreed last night that while she remained head of a ‘ foreign and oppressive state which had an aggressive , irredentist claim ’ to Northern Ireland , she would not be welcome at the City Hall or any other civic property . |
| 12 | They concentrate first on a single problem ( A ) , before tackling different problems together ( A–C ) . |
| 13 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , London Division One outfit Tabard will have the crowd on their feet when they host First Division giants Northampton . |
| 15 | But such organizations generally prefer to keep a low profile as they peddle Third World prostitution — hoping to attract the attention only of potential customers . |
| 16 | And indeed they weighed next to nothing , lying lightly along her arms , over her wrists , round her waist … |
| 17 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
| 18 | If they want Second Division football they should support us now . |
| 19 | See exactly what they want first . |
| 20 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 21 | Then Europe 's voters and parliaments will need to discuss what they want next , well before they send their ministers back into the Europe-machine . |
| 22 | But when they want last games of cards |
| 23 | Still pleading competition and the greater suitability of women for keyboard work , they proposed first that machines henceforward be given alternately to men and women workers ; or , a further concession , that all new machines be given to men until there were 50 per cent worked by each sex , and attributed alternately thereafter . |
| 24 | Less skilled negotiators disagree in the order they think , that is , saying they disagree first and then going on to give reasons . |
| 25 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 26 | They moved last year into their 180-year-old converted barn in 12 acres near Launceston ( Peter Aldam negotiated a third off the six-figure asking price ) . |
| 27 | Jessica and Karen , under the eyes of Mrs Roberts , had booked a taxi , and had had to take a farewell brandy with Mr Roberts while it waited , in case he should have gone to work before they rose next morning . |
| 28 | The travelling fans voted the Newport Road hostelry as the best pub of the 50-plus they visited last season . |
| 29 | They reported last week that the NINA electron accelerator at Daresbury in Cheshire was built too slowly and too late to produce research comparable with that of similar machines elsewhere ( New Scientist 21 April , p 133 ) . |
| 30 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |