Example sentences of "[pron] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The haul up the corrie takes you to the first peak , Tom na Gruagaich , from where you must drop down and follow the ridge to the summit of Beinn Alligin , and although that 's where we packed it in , the walk could continue along a stunning ridge to cross the famous horns of Alligin , two pointy crags that stand like gateposts over a terrifying gully . |
| 2 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
| 3 | On the day they want to , they will massacre you to the last man , and it is your duty to fall . |
| 4 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 5 | I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 6 | Now I would do it slightly differently , I mean I would say that we want you to , we invite you to the next round of our recruitment thing , but there i , er have no decision has yet been taken as to how many if any appointments will actually be made . |
| 7 | Well , to hell with them , but I will say everything to the last word . ’ |
| 8 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 9 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 10 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 11 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 12 | This brings me to the second part of this paper in which I wish to turn to some of the ‘ challenges ’ a UK government archivist faces in attempting to implement an archival records management programme in government . |
| 13 | That brings me to the second issue that I wish to discuss — the question of anonymity , which the Secretary of State mentioned several times in his opening speech . |
| 14 | This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality . |
| 15 | But my argument will be double-edged ; and this brings me to the second reason for discounting ‘ higher learning ’ as a chapter title . |
| 16 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 17 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 18 | She left us there a few minutes , then , coming to the door , beckoned me to the next room . |
| 19 | That brings me to the next area of concern . |
| 20 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 21 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 22 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 23 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 24 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 25 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 26 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 27 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 28 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 29 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 30 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |