Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Carnival , 1925 , when I was 10 , Sam had first bought us large ice-creams and had decided , before going into the circus , to take the three of us to the menageries ( at an extra cost of two pence , if I remember right ) . |
| 2 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 3 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 4 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 5 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 6 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 7 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 8 | Between 1851 and 1880 about 5.3 million left the British Isles ( 3.5 million of them to the United States , 1 million to Australia , half a million to Canada ) — by far the greatest body of trans-oceanic emigrants in the world . |