Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Rimmer on the other hand made several flights with 149 Squadron and they were all trips of short duration ; mainly air tests of the APQ–13 radar . |
| 2 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 3 | Therefore the company could increase their capacity by another 4,444 units if they 80 wished . |
| 4 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 5 | The confusion cleared up , the paddlers left the beach at 0625 , nearly 12 hours after they had been launched from their submarine . |
| 6 | Besides , the magazine reported that almost unbelievably , the government had stopped advance copies of scientific annual reports being issued to weekly journals because London 's evening newspaper , The Standard , had printed ( heinous ! dastardly ! ) details of awards to Falkland troops as much as 12 hours before they were officially released . |
| 7 | Lowes fired Langley into the lead again after 49 minutes and they held on , despite having full back Paul Cooper sent off for swearing . |
| 8 | For example , patients waiting in an out-patient department knowing that it will be 30 minutes before they are seen may be happier than those who wait half as long , not knowing how long the wait will be . |
| 9 | Boil chickpeas for about 30 minutes until they are just tender , then drain . |
| 10 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 11 | Teams have 2 speakers and they must be for or against whichever motion is on the table . |
| 12 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 13 | It was the room they had shared for 30 years since they had moved in to claim his inheritance . |
| 14 | All the old favourites are there in a medley of hits which , like him , have hardly failed to age over 30 years since they first hit the charts . |
| 15 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 16 | ‘ I have always maintained that the priesthood is male , Jesus chose 12 Apostles and they were all men . ’ |
| 17 | The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form . |
| 18 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if you 're married to somebody for forty years and they get fat , you do n't just divorce them because they get fat . |
| 20 | Characters are allowed an I test to spot areas of rotted wood — there is a -25 penalty if they do n't specify that they 're actually looking ! |
| 21 | Sri Lanka ended up needing 140 to record their first Test win over England and only their fourth success in 43 Tests since they joined the big league in 1982 . |
| 22 | In response to claims by MAS that the BBC has circulated a list of 67 records that they have allegedly ‘ banned ’ due to their being unlistenable , a spokesperson for Radio 1 said ‘ Absolutely . |
| 23 | Already the Canadian government has retreated from a plan to cull 300 wolves and they have been reintroduced into American national parks . |
| 24 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 25 | a man of about forty rose as they entered . |
| 26 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 27 | Add red lentils and cook for a further 10 minutes until they are tender but still retain their shape . |
| 28 | As the potatoes cook , soak the dried mushrooms in the hand- hot water for 10 minutes until they swell and soften . |
| 29 | It was six hours since they had shared their meagre ration of black rice , boiled as usual in a rusting can on the communal fire inside the barrack hut . |
| 30 | A bad custom has prevailed lately in our mines in general which is that the men work only six hours whereas they used to work eight hours … we entered into a resolution to insist on the men working eight hours in future , instead of six and relieve in place . |