Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 2 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 3 | Your own four-record set devoted to music of the Second Viennese School was , I know , one of your most cherished projects . |
| 4 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 5 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 6 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 7 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 8 | Incremental — only transfer information which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since the last transfer for that type |
| 9 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 10 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 11 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 12 | Stanley kept in contention in the first half of the game but came to grief on the 11th end when they dropped a five . |
| 13 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 14 | The number of kings who came to grief in the fifth century is staggeringly high , and this must have had a deterrent effect on kings who contemplated taking initiatives . |
| 15 | Our Lady ascended to heaven on the fifteenth of August and looked after La République . |
| 16 | Liverpool was a relative late-comer to the great docks of Britain , having risen to prominence in the eighteenth century through the cotton trade , importing raw cotton and ( like Bristol [ q.v. ] ) having a lively traffic in slaves , as well as exporting cotton goods . |
| 17 | Most are thought to date from the 13th century when packhorses were used to transport goods . |
| 18 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 19 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 20 | This may have been done in the Middle Ages , but many warrens seem to date from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 21 | Another aspect of parental involvement leads to consideration of the last influence on change in listening to children read . |
| 22 | The momentum of the swing forces you to turn your back on the opponent , who is waiting to counter-attack at the first opportunity . |
| 23 | A canvas may be perfectly genuine if shown to date to the seventeenth century , but be a fake if it is nineteenth century . |
| 24 | This superiority in the visuo-spatial domain has been found in some studies to extend to perception of the third dimension . |
| 25 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 26 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 27 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 28 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 29 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 30 | Maguire , who has rocketed to stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |