Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? "
2 He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
3 They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day .
4 Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed .
5 Once more a terrible curiosity overcame him , to know what the third girl looked like .
6 With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was .
7 Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home .
8 Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope .
9 I 'd be very interested to hear what the next rumour is … but I do n't really have anything to say .
10 In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up .
11 Find out who will be there to wake them the next morning , if you are not on duty .
12 Nevertheless , to call oneself the Fourth Estate is hardly unambitious , while the very names and nicknames of newspapers tell us much about their occupational pretensions — The Times ( the Thunderer ) , the Guardian , the Globe , the Tribune , the Observer , the Examiner , the Mirror and Le Monde .
13 A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday .
14 He demonstrates his belief to the union that problems can be overcome , and if he fails to convince them the first time he 'll try again and again .
15 Eddington paused , then replied , " I am trying to think who the third person is . " )
16 Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior .
17 As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present .
18 So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be .
19 It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria .
20 Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night .
21 So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world .
22 We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait .
23 When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third .
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