Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 32 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 33 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 34 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 35 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 36 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 37 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 38 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 39 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 40 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 41 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 42 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 43 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 44 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 45 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 46 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 47 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 48 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 49 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 50 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 51 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 52 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 53 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 54 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 55 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 56 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
| 57 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 58 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 59 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 60 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |