Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 2 | And remember that most insurance companies expect you to pay the first part of any claim — usually £25-£50 . |
| 3 | ‘ I want you to catch the first flight back from Brussels . |
| 4 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 5 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 6 | and if you 're gon na send people to Northern Ireland and places like that you want 'em to defend the next soldier ? |
| 7 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
| 8 | It allows you to select the next field to access ( see below ) . |
| 9 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 10 | I hope to have learnt something by doing this painting to help me to get the next one that much better . |
| 11 | To help you to take the first important steps , we have produced the Barclays Small Business Pack . |
| 12 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 13 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 14 | Then , on 31 December , he rang back in desperation at the slow progress on the house , and told Sybille they would like her to start the next day . |
| 15 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 16 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 18 | ( g ) The notes are also useful for the preparation of any report on title that may be required for your client 's bank , building society or other mortgagee , the form of which sometimes requires you to state the last purchase price , etc. ( h ) Your notes on title will help you deal with any possible requisitions by the Land Registry and will also indicate at a glance deeds containing restrictive covenants , easements or plans , which should be retained after registration as giving fuller information and exact wording on matters of possible dispute . |
| 19 | Instead , BT is set to fill our TV screens with Mel Smith as ‘ Inspector Morose ’ , persuading us to buy the third lot of BT shares , which goes on sale in July . |
| 20 | Victor Lewis-Smith killed it , in one of his Time Out columns , with a heartfelt appeal for a gadget which would enable us to break the last tiny piece of poppadam into two equal pieces . |
| 21 | Asking them to recount the last incidence of the problem behaviour often helps . |
| 22 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 23 | Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada . |
| 24 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 25 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 26 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 27 | In fact , she would have ideally wanted them to spend the next day and a half in bed together , and hang the consequences . |
| 28 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 29 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 30 | Basel takes place right at the end of the season after the New York contemporary art auctions , allowing it to have the last word on the state of the market . |