Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 2 | Millionaire Hall watched his side race to their 13th League win and then hinted that he wanted Keegan to stay on indefinitely as Newcastle manager . |
| 3 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 4 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 5 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 6 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 7 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 8 | Buckley earned their first win of the season scoring 175–2 as bottom of the table Wrexham slumped to their eighth defeat in eight games only managing 80–5 . |
| 9 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 10 | Well I heard what that bloke said to you last time when I went before , do n't worry , once you 've paid for it once you 've paid it they 'll sort it out from there . |
| 11 | Mick said to me last night , he said to me you can never fit not used to it , but |
| 12 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 13 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 14 | MERSEYSIDE 'S hopes of some sort of compensation following their opening defeat at the hands of Yorkshire came to nothing last Sunday . |
| 15 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 16 | SCARBOROUGH slumped to their third successive defeat against Maidstone to leave their season virtually in ruins . |
| 17 | And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons . |
| 18 | If it 's alright then I 'll come home cos Mr said to me last night , oh you want to stay here the night . |
| 19 | Mark Wright , John Barnes , Ian Rush and David Burrows were all missing as Liverpool crashed to their second defeat in four days . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , find out what Blackbeard said to 'im last night . ’ |
| 21 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 22 | even though they might be part and parcel of the same organization , they are not the leaseholders so they ca n't make the arrangements , so if they want to make the arrangement they must have the lease assigned to them first , then we will come to terms with them over land and to under le under let . |
| 23 | A few years ago , Michael was asked by the BBC to take part in a series which featured famous people returning to their first jobs . |
| 24 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 25 | Unless the Grand Army got to him first . |
| 26 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 27 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 28 | But she was laying in bed listening to them last night were n't you ? |
| 29 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 30 | Another door opened to me last year when my daughter presented me with a gorgeous grandson , Simon , the same daughter who was instrumental in my first joining the Brownie Pack so many years ago ! |