Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only get hundred pound do they ? |
| 2 | The Exiles had 5 Internationals in their team , but they only managed one try . |
| 3 | On , on , on the same day they only charge nine pound and i , everything 's valid up , insured up to fifteen thousand pounds per consignment . |
| 4 | But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle . |
| 5 | The great Fangio ( Arg ) was also in the Maserati team but they only had one race together as team-mates before Fangio moved on to Mercedes . |
| 6 | They only had one objective — to save a few bob for the government . |
| 7 | ‘ They only had one chance , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Some graduates stride to the front of the little hall so easily you would not guess they only had one leg . |
| 9 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 10 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 11 | The trouble is , they only have one edge . |
| 12 | I reckon they only have one door apiece , so she 'll be trapped . |
| 13 | er the Japanese now they went to Nissan , they only do one thing at , one thing each |
| 14 | He scored 7 in 8 matches and with that was top scorer in Start — without Frank Start would surely have been relegated — i think they just got 1 victory in this autumn games ( 11 of totally 22 played ) . |
| 15 | Yeah , there 's a company that er imports from the south seas , all the fishes and they just charge two pound a pound . |
| 16 | They listen to it , and they do n't give them a name they just say sixteen year old , sixteen year old girl , fifteen year old girl with a friend and they |
| 17 | They listen to it , and they do n't give them a name they just say sixteen year old , sixteen year old girl , fifteen year old girl with a friend and they |
| 18 | have , have er , it , do they just sell one lot like again in same , same again |
| 19 | They normally wanted one man to go and er and that was it . |
| 20 | We thought they were , yeah , and they fucking bought one drink between them ! |
| 21 | They always had one child with them , outside the room . |
| 22 | These meetings took place every year until 1965 , they usually took one day and the French participants used to call them ‘ Cashmere meetings ’ because , after voicing their disinclination to cooperate , they would leave and go to buy Scottish pullovers . |
| 23 | In reality , they usually make two dividend payments per year , an interim and a final dividend . |
| 24 | They usually function one evening a week in a local church hall or community centre and can undoubtedly play a most valuable role . |
| 25 | Erm at school they usually have one teacher for each |
| 26 | They also saw one man throw a cock into the air . |
| 27 | The instrument contains electronic components , which are wired up so that they automatically compare two radar frequencies and convert the result into convenient units — miles per hour . |
| 28 | They then bet 4–1 Pursuit of Love , 6–1 Rodrigo de Triano , 8–1 Cardoun , 10–1 Tertian and Steinbeck , 12–1 bar . |
| 29 | When your party was in power they barely provided one pitch in the whole of the county |
| 30 | Of course our data are always incomplete ; they never determine one translation as conclusively right and all competitors as conclusively wrong . |