Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MP for Watford , said in his letter to the Prime Minister he first asked to return to the backbenches in the summer of 1991 . |
| 2 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 3 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 4 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 5 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 6 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 7 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 8 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |
| 9 | When the larva first began to develop from the egg , its cells were segregated into two groups . |
| 10 | When the Romans first began to expand into the Balkans in the third century BC , the area was inhabited by Thracian , Illyrian and Celtic tribes . |
| 11 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 12 | The couple had been inseparable since they first went to live at the home . |
| 13 | Sister Marcus first had to talk to the S.M.O. and S.S.O. , as inevitably their views mattered . |