Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 2 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 3 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 4 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 5 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 6 | General enquiries should be addressed to CFSU in the first instance . |
| 7 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 8 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
| 9 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 11 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 12 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |
| 13 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 14 | Where further notification is not given on the fourth day in accordance with the procedures laid down for the second stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP from the fourth day of absence for that reason only . |
| 15 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |
| 16 | Thence it was finally brought to India in the thirteenth century by refugees fleeing Genghis Khan — at about the same time as Abelard was lecturing to his students at the new university of Paris . |
| 17 | Based on the true story of an Inuit girl who was brought to Britain during the 19th century , the opera contrasts the spiritual culture of the Inuit people with the rigid conventions of Victorian Britain . |
| 18 | Hops , brought to Britain in the 15th century by Dutch brewers , not only add bitterness and aroma but also act as a preservative and prevent infections in the brew . |
| 19 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 20 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 21 | The scabious Corydalia lutea and Mirabilib jalapa were introduced to Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 22 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 23 | Additional packages of work estimated at £2 million are expected to be sub-contracted to Instem in the next few months . |
| 24 | The first turkeys were shipped to Europe in the 17th Century when ‘ Turkish ’ was a blanket term for anything which came from or through Arab lands . |
| 25 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 26 | According to a joint communiqué issued on Sept. 18 , a number of confidence-building measures were agreed including the release of detained Thai and Vietnamese fishermen and the granting of Thai citizenship to Vietnamese nationals who had fled to Thailand during the first Indo-China war . |
| 27 | This is apparent in a striking passage of the Histories ( 6. 5 3–4 ) written by Polybius , a Greek exiled to Rome in the second century BC . |
| 28 | The programme will be taken to Japan in the fourth quarter . |
| 29 | I want you to check on any murderers who 've been convicted and sent to Whitely in the last three years , got it ? |
| 30 | Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years . |