Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 32 | He demonstrates his belief to the union that problems can be overcome , and if he fails to convince them the first time he 'll try again and again . |
| 33 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |
| 34 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 35 | ‘ I trust you 'll have no objections if I use whatever influence I have with the airlines to get you the first available seat ? ’ |
| 36 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 37 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 38 | Whether she had or not , he felt compelled to ask her a last question , even if it did annoy or depress her . |
| 39 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 40 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
| 41 | He did n't have to tell me a second time . |
| 42 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm going to make you the next Madonna . ’ |
| 44 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 45 | Ace Barton , world champion and on present form looking likely to make it a second time . |
| 46 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 47 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 48 | I sat back and treated myself to a cigarette , determined to make it the first and last of the day . |
| 49 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 50 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 51 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |