Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 3 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 4 | But skipper was then obliged to sail to a mark to fulfil a penalty imposed by the race officials for taking on a new sail in Hobart to replace one lost during the second leg . |
| 5 | one man who 's already in the money … thankfully … is Olympic rower Steve Redgrave from Buckinghamshire … he 's got a forty thousand pounds sponsorship deal with the Port of London to help him train for the next Olympics … solid gold … |
| 6 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 7 | Wycombe and Colchester each have seven games left to decide who goes into the Fourth Division next season . |
| 8 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 9 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 10 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 11 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 12 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 13 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 14 | You got to get it out to get it ordered by the first week of January . |
| 15 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 16 | If the patient has successfully carried out the task that was agreed he should now be helped to plan what to do before the next session . |
| 17 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 18 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 19 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 20 | Would I be tough and wise-cracking at the end , or would they have to drag me screaming through the last door like a jelly-livered rat ? |
| 21 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |