Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the wallet of photographs from his pocket and leafed through them to the ninth picture in Heather 's collection . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was considered bourgeois to own or rent an appartement , so the artistic community of St-Germain-des Pres lived in hotels , paying daily for their night 's — or day 's — rest , flitting from one to the next as circumstances demanded . |
| 4 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 5 | We had to sail ( or rather motor ) the boat precisely along three straight line courses , changing from one to the next at exactly the right places otherwise we would have a most unpleasant encounter with Bogha nan Ramfhear . |
| 6 | The various types of radiation have different wavelengths ; if we consider them in terms of increasing or decreasing wavelength , the types of radiation blend gradually from one to the next . |
| 7 | Backed by his men and by the many planetary troopers who were unpolluted and loyal to the governor , he had commenced his activities around a ring of other cities than the capital , moving from one to the next , destroying . |
| 8 | Jacqui Rogers , Continuity PA , explains how she has to observe every scene and check everything matches up from one to the next . |
| 9 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 10 | But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last . |
| 11 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |