Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 3 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
| 4 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 5 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 6 | Those readers who have an aversion to such are advised to pass quickly by the next two sections , and move to the discussion of West Ham which provides the historical context for what is to follow . |
| 7 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 8 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 9 | ‘ Customers ’ orders , as well as invoices , can be processed via the EDI network and Atlas ; we expect the number of customers wanting to transmit orders in this way to increase substantially over the next two years . |
| 10 | Parishes were able to cope with their pauper problem until England 's population began to soar dramatically during the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 12 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 13 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 14 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 15 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 16 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 17 | David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year . |
| 18 | So , although it is not possible to state any overall figures , the prevalence of ageing with a disability among minority ethnic communities is also likely to increase significantly over the next decade and beyond . |
| 19 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 20 | This regiment of regular gunners was to serve successively with the 1st Armoured and 5th Indian Divisions before finding longer-term employment as one of the three regiments forming the field artillery of the celebrated 4th Indian Division . |
| 21 | By opening the way for military forces to serve overseas for the first time since 1945 , the Peace Keeping Operations ( PKO ) bill marked a significant shift in Japanese foreign policy . |
| 22 | The move came four months after the Diet had approved a law permitting Japanese forces to serve overseas for the first time since the end of the Pacific War [ see pp. 38962-63 ] , and followed a request from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 23 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |
| 24 | Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention . |
| 25 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 26 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 27 | It is also important to differentiate here between the first flight of the day and subsequent flights . |
| 28 | ‘ There is a big opportunity for our young players to play regularly in the first eleven . |
| 29 | Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half . |
| 30 | But there was a limit beyond which the furtherance of working-class interests conflicted with the national interest ; few were prepared to advance there in the first two years of the war . |