Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 2 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 3 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 4 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 5 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 6 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |
| 7 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 8 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 9 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 10 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 11 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 12 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 13 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |