Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to see the second one — Neferukhebit , ’ said Huy briskly . |
| 3 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 4 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 5 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 6 | While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year . |
| 7 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 8 | ‘ I just now want to win the last two races in Japan and Australia and then it 's a new career for me . ’ |
| 9 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 10 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 11 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 12 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 13 | Thames Water say they want to build the second biggest reservoir in England on land in South Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 15 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 16 | This time we want to make the 1st division . |
| 17 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 18 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 19 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 20 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 21 | However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first . |
| 22 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry have produced a limited edition ( 500 ) print to mark the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Gloster E28/39 — a lovely watercolour by Ken Aitken . |
| 23 | But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him . |
| 24 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 25 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 26 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 27 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 28 | The three Shepherds wake to find the fourth Shepherd , Mak , lying still beside them . |
| 29 | This program is only a playable demo , which means you only get to play the first level . |
| 30 | Despite this broad formulation , the courts still continue to use the second limb of the formula , that a requirement of the Act has not been complied with . |