Example sentences of "[num ord] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his pre-National race Devon Loch gave a stone to another future Gold Cup winner , Kerstin , when running third to her in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham , after which Dick Francis reported to the Queen Mother that ‘ Devon Loch was staying on really well , and I feel we have a great chance at Aintree . ’ |
| 2 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 3 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 4 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 5 | Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream . |