Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved .
2 On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track .
3 In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow .
4 But best to remind you that on the tenth of May , we 've got Jerry coming .
5 On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS .
6 I came to tell you that in the next life you wo n't return to Earth . ’
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