Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the big [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 2 | It was Sister Aloysius who turned her head and cried to one of the bigger girls , ‘ Go and fetch Reverend Mother ! |
| 3 | He 's simply trying to put a package together to sell to one of the big corporations — Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh or Zebaot International . |
| 4 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 5 | Every evening there 'd be jostling in the Praça to get the nearest pitch to one of the big sets . |
| 6 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 7 | Before moving here , Terry had spoken to one of the big chiefs , whom he called the Haj , and had been told that everything was now winding down , that we 'd all be going soon . |
| 8 | I thought , if you 've no objection , I could slip up to town after breakfast and go to one of the big stores , and buy him a really handsome shirt and tie . ’ |
| 9 | Hundreds of vintage tractor enthusiasts are expected to turn up to one of the biggest auctions of its kind . |
| 10 | Hope walked across to one of the biggest stones and examined its blank surface close up with the most scrupulous attention until the Colonel and his ward had quit the field . |
| 11 | She beckoned to two of the bigger girls . |