Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 2 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |
| 3 | His last words to me after the match were , ‘ Do n't worry , we 'll be promoted ’ . ’ |
| 4 | When the movement to spread the benefits of restraint through the rest of the city gathered pace in the 1970s , the Germans were fortunate in having the leading exponents of these principles living next door to them in the Netherlands . |
| 5 | I did n't even know them who , who lived next door to her at the side of . |