Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 2 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 3 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 4 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 5 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 6 | I think perhaps we 'll ask them to come to our next meeting , or the meeting after that . |
| 7 | Mark Wright , John Barnes , Ian Rush and David Burrows were all missing as Liverpool crashed to their second defeat in four days . |
| 8 | DARLINGTON 'S hopes of remaining in the Third Division were dealt a severe blow in London last night when they crashed to their eleventh away defeat of the season . |
| 9 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 10 | It read , simply : ‘ REPORT TO ME FIRST THING — HAYMAN . ’ |
| 11 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 12 | He had n't responded to her last shout . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 15 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 16 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 17 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin dropped England cap Nick Pickering , but his reshaped defence still leaked goals as Quakers sank to their fifth successive defeat at Feethams . |
| 19 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
| 20 | As the Doctor , Susan , Ian and Barbara emerge and enter the clearing the other three cameras shift to their second shooting spots . |
| 21 | A few years ago , Michael was asked by the BBC to take part in a series which featured famous people returning to their first jobs . |
| 22 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 24 | And the outcome of that that that review will be reported to its next meeting on the eighth of February . |
| 25 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 26 | At one point Marjory had persuaded herself she would not get into Oxford and was resigned to her second choice , Royal Holloway and Bedford , which has a big history department . |
| 27 | In a report presented to its 43rd annual meeting [ see above ] , the International Whaling Commission 's scientific committee warned that dolphins , porpoises and other members of the 66 species of small cetaceans are facing extinction in parts of the world , as a result of both deliberate hunting and accidental killing by fishermen , especially those using long drift nets . |
| 28 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 29 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 30 | But , of course , it does n't always work ; I was listening to my second recording of the Liszt Sonata about a year ago , and found things there that did not satisfy me . |