Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 2 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 3 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 4 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 5 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 6 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 7 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 8 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 9 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 10 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 11 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 12 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 13 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 14 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 15 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 16 | Mr Orbach said the company was ‘ beginning to hear the first sounds of improved trading conditions from some customers , ’ which could mean growth in 1992 . |
| 17 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 18 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 19 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 20 | The NRA hopes to have the first standards in place by the end of this year and does not foresee any complications caused by the setting up of a single environment agency . |
| 21 | In the final stages of the journey from river mud to glittering metal , gold is treated to remove the last stages of Garrimpo mercury , then it becomes pure , but not innocent . |
| 22 | In 1989 the government was preparing to implement The Next Steps under which many departments carrying out executive functions would be converted into independent agencies . |
| 23 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 24 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 25 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 26 | When a bargain has been struck the TOPIC ( " Teletext Output of Price Information on Computer " ) price displays are altered to show the last trades made . |
| 27 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |