Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 4 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 5 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 6 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 7 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |
| 11 | The latest is comedian Freddie Starr , who also claims to remember ‘ working my b******* off for next to nothing under the last Labour government ’ ( can you work out what the asterisks stand for ? ) |
| 12 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 13 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 14 | We can supply them from stock and shall be despatching them to you within the next few days . |
| 15 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 16 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 17 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 18 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 19 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 20 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 21 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 22 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
| 23 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 24 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 25 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 26 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 27 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 28 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 29 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 30 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |