Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 2 | TOKYO ( Reuter ) — The Liberal Democratic Party , struggling to win back voters alienated by scandals and a sales tax , yesterday chose the Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , to lead it into the next general election . |
| 3 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 4 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 5 | All we we 've agreed that we 're going to need someone to control it at the next fair . |
| 6 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 7 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 8 | It was hoped to refloat her on the next high water at 2120 and the Greek master had requested lifeboat assistance . |