Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 3 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 4 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 5 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 6 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 7 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 8 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 9 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 10 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 11 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 12 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 13 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 14 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 16 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 17 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 18 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 19 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 20 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 21 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 22 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 23 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 24 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 25 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 26 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 27 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
| 28 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 29 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 30 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |