Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’
2 ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole .
3 ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’
4 Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks .
5 If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
6 It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time .
7 ‘ I 've come to advise you on the last two appointments to your team . ’
8 I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery .
9 European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee .
10 Oh we 're not , we do n't need to take it till the next one .
11 The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend .
12 I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys .
13 We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county .
14 Vechey had decided to hang himself on the last .
15 As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time .
16 The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place .
17 I 'd like to see them in the first division .
18 And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed .
19 Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ?
20 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
21 Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one .
22 That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent
23 Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years .
24 If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place .
25 I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council .
26 Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ?
27 In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years …
28 In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her .
29 It will be interesting to see if you have lost that charm , because you are going to need it over the next few days , every last gram of it . ’
30 As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’
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