Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 4 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 9 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |