Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 2 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 4 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 5 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 6 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 7 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 8 | So that 's why we said well let's get on and decide which of the next four homes to be refurbished . |
| 9 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 10 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 11 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 12 | However , USL believes that HP will adopt it within the next three or four months . |
| 13 | I 'm an optimist : I think there 's a fifty-fifty chance that we will find them in the next twenty years . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it will help me over the next thirty , ’ he added as an afterthought . |