Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHELSEA brought Manchester United crashing to their first defeat in 16 league games with a 1–0 victory at Stamford Bridge today . |
| 2 | But since this demands a different sense from the one appropriate to its first occurrence , the result is zeugma . |
| 3 | The Yorkshireman added just six to his first innings duck , completing a miserable Test debut by shouldering arms to a ball from Anil Kumble , which plucked out his off stump . |
| 4 | 1964 , the year previous to my first spell of duty , had proved a particularly good one for Venturous . |
| 5 | She had three to her first marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was foul to you last night , ’ the woman said . |
| 7 | ‘ The condition he 's in , ’ the man by her side immediately assessed his cousin 's state , ‘ I should n't think he was much good to you last night . ’ |
| 8 | Oh dear , if only you 'd explained it all to me last night ! ’ she said accusingly to Fran . |
| 9 | Despite this ideological coherence ( or inflexibility ? ) numerous disputes raged within the editorial board even prior to its first edition . |
| 10 | Prior to its third seminar , in 1980 , it invited five experts from developing countries to study and evaluate a number of development programmes in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | During the next week or so , the young develop their finnage and other characteristics more fully , prior to their first attempt to swim . |
| 12 | Tremayne 's vet took small blood samples of all the stable 's runners prior to their last training gallop before they raced , the resulting detailed analysis being able to reveal a whole host of things from a raised lymphocyte count to excreted enzymes due to muscle damage . |
| 13 | ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face to face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut , ’ Waite said in a statement yesterday . |
| 14 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 15 | Once premiums cease after 10 years , you can then leave your fund to continue accumulating and you can cash it in , at anytime , prior to your 85th birthday . |
| 16 | David Davies , born in Llandinam ( midway between Llanidloes and Newtown ) in 1818 , began his working life as a sawyer , which seems to have little relevance to civil engineering but was responsible for his excellent local reputation prior to his first engineering contract . |
| 17 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 18 | When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown , a member of Manchester United 's back-room staff . |
| 19 | He has a daughter of 23 by his first marriage and is happily married to his second wife Jenny . |
| 20 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | You were really quite cheeky to her last week . ’ |
| 22 | Showell Styles chose with acumen the incidents to make up four successive junior novels , beginning with Midshipman Quinn , which followed the fortunes of Septimus Quinn from his fifteenth to his seventeenth year . |
| 23 | Everett Fahy is fine while on the trail of the Velasquez , but is eventually discredited due to his second thoughts about the deaccessioning of an important Henri Rousseau . |
| 24 | Gregor Townsend : a step nearer to his first cap |
| 25 | Did that to me last time . |
| 26 | Places as mysterious to your first Gittel as the back of the moon . ’ |
| 27 | I was kind to you last time ! |
| 28 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |
| 29 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 30 | You were so nice to me last night . |