Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Carnival , 1925 , when I was 10 , Sam had first bought us large ice-creams and had decided , before going into the circus , to take the three of us to the menageries ( at an extra cost of two pence , if I remember right ) . |
| 2 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 3 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 4 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 5 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 6 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 8 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 9 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 10 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 11 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 12 | Between 1851 and 1880 about 5.3 million left the British Isles ( 3.5 million of them to the United States , 1 million to Australia , half a million to Canada ) — by far the greatest body of trans-oceanic emigrants in the world . |