Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 2 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 3 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 4 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 5 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 6 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 7 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 8 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 9 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 10 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 11 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 12 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 13 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |