Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 2 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 3 | When they have finished ask them to answer the five questions . |
| 4 | I have already decided that I will fish the water at night , at least to begin with , and this will allow me to fish the three best periods : dusk , darkness and dawn . |
| 5 | And trust you to like the one person you can never have , she mused . |
| 6 | Accessing this part of the package requires no fiddling with anything in DOS , but needs you to connect the two computers between which files are to be passed via either a parallel or serial lead . |
| 7 | Our cover story this month invites you to meet the one hundred funniest people in Britain . |
| 8 | Secondly , I 'd like you to identify the three members of management that he 's dealing with , are called Barbara , oh God , what are they called , Barbara , Ted and Doughnut . |
| 9 | Work out what sort of situations seem to cause you to experience the four different feelings . |
| 10 | This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require . |
| 11 | Apprised of this information , the computer print-outs ( ’ it 's all down to you , the draw will be made by the same computer that picked you to join the two out of every 100 households in the Barnard Castle area ’ ) are on their way by first-class post to Tom Champagne . |
| 12 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 13 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 14 | How , then , are we to conceptualize the three distinct , yet interrelated , processes apparent in contemporary global politics ? |
| 15 | Here is where I think it begins-with Mr. Henry Mendez , the Hatch & Hodges Division Manager at Sweetmary and still my boss at the time , asking me to ride the 16 miles down to Delgado 's with him in the mud wagon . |
| 16 | It was appreciated that , being obese , it was not easy for them to climb the three sets of stairs leading to our house . |
| 17 | We took her to see the Three Howes , prehistoric mounds on the summit of the moors . |
| 18 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 19 | However he welcomed the manner in which the new law had resolved the " most serious " objections which had led him to veto the 1990 version , and had made it clear that US government " requests " to third countries or private citizens for help in covert actions did not need to be reported to Congress . |
| 20 | Pedrosa was convinced that this average track runner could be transformed into a top marathoner. he eventually persuaded the authorities to allow her to run the 1982 European Championships marathon in Athens but they insisted she must run the 3000m as well . |
| 21 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |
| 22 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 23 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 24 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 25 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 26 | But the enthusiasm of the 10,000 East Germans who cheered Dr Kohl and pinned their hopes on him to bring the two Germanys together was in stark contrast to official statements on the future from East Germany 's reform-minded leaders . |
| 27 | His future was saved by the Dutch medical instrument company , Docshop , who signed him to attack the 250 Euro series . |
| 28 | The fact that some policewomen carry out both sets of duties allows them to contrast the two types of community relations , with general community relations work being seen as ‘ fun ’ and juvenile liaison as more demanding and difficult . |
| 29 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 30 | It was the gentleman who seemed to spring to the door and open it to let the two heavily laden customers out . |