Example sentences of "they [verb] [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed two motor-cyclists who emitted no bleep , and two powerful motor-bikes overtook them , but the D/F they sought was still proceeding steadily ahead of them . |
| 2 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 3 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 4 | They head 600 volunteers who have already put themselves forward for 200 new Government teams which will be checking on classroom standards after September , 1993 . |
| 5 | Two campaigners , an Englishman and a Frenchman , brushed away tears as they recalled 453 airmen who never returned from World War 2 sorties . |
| 6 | The Air Ministry firmly believed that fundamentally it was a question of pure navigation , and furthermore they were convinced that they knew one man who could lead such a formation to meet the planned Bomber Force envisaged by the Chiefs of Staff — but he was not even in the RAF , He was a professional Imperial Airways pilot with an international reputation — a host of " firsts " in world aviation events and , even more importantly , he was an outstanding navigator . |
| 7 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 8 | They quote one detective who said : |
| 9 | They had two sons who died young and three daughters . |
| 10 | They had one daughter who died at the age of six ; the mother died shortly afterwards . |
| 11 | They had one son who died in 1939 . |
| 12 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 13 | They have two daughters who still live in the 50-bedroom Cassillis Castle , near Ayr . |