Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing I say hereafter is intended to relate to the second decision . |
| 2 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 3 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 4 | MAS should inform potential purchasers selected to proceed to the next phase and arrange meetings and site visits . |
| 5 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |
| 6 | But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible . |
| 7 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 8 | I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about the normal courtesy of staying to listen to the next speaker . |
| 10 | By clause 2 of this mortgage , the mortgagor guaranteed to pay to the first defendant on demand : |
| 11 | If , however , an appeal committee comes to the conclusion that efficiency would be prejudiced by complying with the preference , then the appeal committee will have to proceed to the second stage and decide how to exercise its discretion , by weighing up the advantages which would be achieved by complying with the preference as against the prejudice this would cause . |
| 12 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 13 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |
| 14 | When their mother died in 1890 , the eldest daughter , who was by then thirty years old , was allowed to move to the first floor bedroom , and from then on she ruled the roost . |
| 15 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 16 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 17 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 18 | I am determined to get to the next home mid-week game , Does anybody know when that will be ? |
| 19 | Press Tab to move to the next level in and Shift-Tab to move back out again ( or you can drag using the mouse ) . |
| 20 | And er Alan keeps saying , you can do it but you have to wait to the next programme coming through and I specifically asked for Liz to put it on . |