Example sentences of "they [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flew into Morag 's arms and the pair of them hugged one another . |
| 2 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 3 | Most of them charged 60 per cent a year or 5 per cent a month . |
| 4 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 5 | A few yards behind them came two of the gardeners and the young detective on duty at the nursery that morning . |
| 6 | Behind them came two of the Sheikh 's men and a Pakistani male nurse . |
| 7 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of them reckoned one of the teachers — some arty chap with a beard — might have done it , but Laura do n't think so . ’ |
| 9 | With them walked four thin men in rich-coloured rags . |
| 10 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 11 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |
| 12 | The range before them contained two separate crescendi : Great Ararat , a bulky , broad-shouldered mass like a buttressed dome , and Little Ararat , some four thousand feet lower , an elegant cone with smooth and regular sides . |
| 13 | In the eyes of the unhappy infantry , the heavy gunners may have been a breed apart , but beyond them lay one small body of men that seemed to be not even of the same world . |
| 14 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 15 | They strafed one of the airfields , claiming one bomber destroyed and several damaged . |
| 16 | They owned 80 per cent of the trees , and took a keen interest in protecting them . |
| 17 | In the Czech lands they owned 43 per cent of the breweries , 65 per cent of the sugar factories and 60 per cent of the distilleries in the early 1870s . |
| 18 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 19 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 20 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 21 | They met 11 years ago and married six months after Jim Henson 's death . |
| 22 | They met four years ago in the London run of the musical Godspell . |
| 23 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 24 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |
| 25 | They met seven North West MPs to ask for backing for a bid to get a change in legislation to allow workers to stay in the UKAEA pension scheme after the site 's commercial uranium enrichment business is transferred to Urenco in September . |
| 26 | ‘ They met three years ago , ’ she said . |
| 27 | No , they met twenty |
| 28 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 29 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 30 | If they said they got six twelfths ? |