Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 2 | He was going to say it … he had to be leading up to ‘ I love you ’ … and she felt she was clinging on by her fingernails to the last trace of hope , her hands clutching the door-jamb behind her to stop herself sliding down and begging him to say it . |
| 3 | The larks carry their tongues to the last atom |
| 4 | And maybe turn their thoughts to the next ? |
| 5 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 6 | But when discovered it was assigned by its excavators to the late-third or early-fourth century ( Britannia VIII ( 1977 ) , 413 ) : a dating subsequently accepted by Neal ( 1981 , no. 63 ) and Swain and Ling ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 168 : where the wall paintings from the same room as the mosaic are considered to be of late-third/early-fourth century date ) . |
| 7 | A Thames waterman would take his grandson , on his Sunday visits , out on his lighter , handing down his skills to the fifth generation to work on the river : ‘ he was one of those methodical old fellows who live quietly , and never get ruffled . ’ |
| 8 | Kim probably then fought with the Soviet forces but there is no evidence to substantiate the grandiose claims Kim was later to make concerning his contributions to the Second World War . |
| 9 | The main interest of Kant 's ethics lies in his answers to the second and third sort of question . |
| 10 | ALCLAD can realize your ideas to the last detail . |
| 11 | Use this method of checking to test your answers to the last exercise . |