Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 4 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 5 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 6 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 7 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 8 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 9 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 10 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 11 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 12 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 13 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 14 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 15 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 16 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 17 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 18 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 19 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 20 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 21 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 22 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 23 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 24 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 25 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 26 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 28 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 29 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 30 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |