Example sentences of "[verb] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 2 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 3 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 4 | Hermeneutics is committed to the first and hence to giving some account of how internal orderings relate to reality . |
| 5 | And the club is also firmly committed to the next generation . |
| 6 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 7 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 8 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 9 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 10 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |
| 11 | Use the erm , they they invited the Chislehurst May Queen , dan maypole dancers to come to the next open evening . |
| 12 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 13 | Neath , who have failed to match last season 's title-winning form , mainly because the younger players have required time to adjust to the First Division , scored three tries during an eight-minute period in the second half . |
| 14 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 15 | The final stage of the programme will conclude with the opening in 1994 of around fifty more rooms in the north wing , devoted to the eighteenth , nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 16 | Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship . |
| 17 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 18 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 19 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 20 | All of these initiatives as well as the day to day work that goes on with safety representatives at the workplace , supported by officials all of these initiatives are aimed at improving standards at the workplace and we are also contributing to the fourth action programme in Europe where they are setting out their action programme which will take them into the next |
| 21 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |
| 22 | The second was added to the first , over the cheek and lower jaw , to give a further stage of disintegration . |
| 23 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of planes again , only this time there was a different engine note added to the first , low and heavy , making a rhythmic thrumming inside her head and growing stronger every second . |
| 24 | For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound . |
| 25 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 26 | The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) . |
| 27 | The genitive suffix is always added to the last element of a word group : the Prince of Wales 's birthday ; a day or two 's rest . |
| 28 | It should be added to the last rinse in both machine and hand washes , and is suitable for all kinds of fabric . |
| 29 | The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files , relating to the nineteenth century , into its relational database . |
| 30 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |