Example sentences of "[num] and they [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker . |
| 2 | well Aaron 's a six and they 're seven so I 'm safe to getting Aaron a seven |
| 3 | Despite statistics which reveal a reducing young population , only a very few employees will accept 40s and they are rare indeed who even interview 50s . |
| 4 | Six tens being sixty and they were all prepared in a master schedule , you 'd write down twelve o'clock , twelve ten , twelve twenty , erm that sort of thing you see |
| 5 | If you 've got a will however , the elder dies first which is why we have these twenty eight day clauses , you know the man is sixty , the wife is fifty five and they 're both killed together . |
| 6 | Twenty one ninety five and they were twenty two pounds |
| 7 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 8 | She had nine and they 're all fine citizens . |
| 9 | but it 's like you see , he gives them spellings and he puts perhaps three or four wrong in twenty and they 're supposed to come home and check 'em , meanwhile he leaves them on the board for a whole week , which I think I 've told you before |
| 10 | It was seven-fifteen and they were all in the kitchen having breakfast . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the exertions of Peachtree proved too much for the four and they were all defeated by the quarter-final stage . |
| 12 | I , no I , I get the impression that , you know , everyone just everyone just kind of freaked out end of nineteen forty six forty seven and they were just , oh God what are we gon na do now , wh what can we do to get some more support , oh excellent , yeah , let's go for equal distribution , what a great idea and then all of a sudden they think oh no , it 's not , you know , perhaps it 's not such a good idea after all . |
| 13 | The variations on the basic motions number in their thousands and they are all executed at a very high speed . |