Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 2 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 3 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 4 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 5 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 6 | I went to court the next morning , was refused bail and was remanded to Holloway . |
| 7 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 8 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 9 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 10 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 11 | And now I have to interrupt the first bit of pleasure I 've been able to take in I do n't know how long and put you all to right . |
| 12 | I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ . |
| 13 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 14 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 15 | Do you want to hear the next line ? |
| 16 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 17 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 18 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 19 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 20 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you like to show the first patient in ? ’ |
| 22 | Mark would you like to face the next ball ? ’ |
| 23 | She began to undo the third shirt . |
| 24 | ‘ He returned from patrol duty shortly after you departed to investigate the second energy trace , ’ explained the junior . |
| 25 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 26 | If you have any comments on these then perhaps you might pass them to me unless , of course , you wish to attend the next meeting . |
| 27 | If you wish to view the next page , you need only press the TAB key . |
| 28 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 29 | Because you have to take the last number off it . |
| 30 | If your home is damaged by Subsidence or Heave you have to pay the first part of the claim yourself . |