Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years . |
| 2 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 3 | They were directed back to their positions by the first assistant and his megaphone , and a second take began ; Miranda was now able to make some sketches of the action as well , as she knew its shape . |
| 4 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 5 | At 4.00 p.m. on Saturday 11 June the drivers engaged in their traditional sprint start to their cars for the 23rd Le Mans , scheduled to cover more than 4000 mkm ( 2500 miles ) . |
| 6 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 7 | The letters written by bishops to their subordinates in the twelfth century rarely give the impression of personal contact with anyone below an archdeacon or a canon . |
| 8 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
| 9 | McGann attempted to press him as to his whereabouts in the last few days , to which Oscar asked why the hell it mattered . |
| 10 | It 's taken a year for Central to bring the show to our screens from the first talks with Tom in the USA . |
| 11 | Although the literary effusions of Hurtley and Wordsworth and the exaggerated landscapes of James Ward and J. M.W. Turner seem a little over the top to us dwellers in the twentieth century ( who , since the advent of the camera and the picture postcard , like our landscape more real and our prose less flowery ) , the scar nevertheless overhangs and dominates the scene as an example of the incredible forces at work when the landscape we now see was formed . |