Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] they [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 2 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 3 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 4 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 5 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 6 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 7 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 8 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 9 | This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . |
| 10 | Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections . |
| 11 | Roll the mixture into small balls about the size of walnuts and place them on two large baking sheets . |
| 12 | The best advice now available is to cut down on Omega-6 fats and balance them with Omega-3 fish oils . |
| 13 | Reagan fired a handful of top EPA officials and replaced them with five fresh-faced outsiders . |
| 14 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |
| 15 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 16 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 17 | Type such notes on one side of the paper and limit them to three or four sheets which can be laid out in front of you and not moved during the programme . |
| 18 | Carbery took a pack of cards out of his pocket and dealt them for Twenty-five . |
| 19 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 20 | You will need to pack foodstuffs and keep them to one side . |
| 21 | He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces . |
| 22 | She put all the dolls in one pram and covered them with four sheets and four blankets . |
| 23 | The fifth band affects a dowser 's balance and throws them to one side : it is strongest at new and full moon . |
| 24 | ‘ I was very sorry to hear about your husband , Mrs Ward , ’ Langton said , closing the door of his office and ushering them towards two chairs . |
| 25 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 26 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 27 | They were about to land at Bristol when he spotted car thieves and buzzed them for 10 miles until they ditched their motor . |
| 28 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 29 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 30 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |