Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ancestors had plenty of practice , it 's second nature to me by now . ’ |
| 2 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 3 | The reports should be sent in the first instance to me for submission to the Advisory Committee on Policy . |
| 4 | His date of birth is not known , but the first reference to him at work is 1567–8 , and he may therefore have been born around 1540 . |
| 5 | I will send your first brother to you in ten minutes . ’ |
| 6 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |
| 7 | His last words to me after the match were , ‘ Do n't worry , we 'll be promoted ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 9 | He was next desk to me for three or four years . |
| 10 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 11 | When the movement to spread the benefits of restraint through the rest of the city gathered pace in the 1970s , the Germans were fortunate in having the leading exponents of these principles living next door to them in the Netherlands . |
| 12 | — His great-grandad lived next door to me for years , before they took him away to that home . |
| 13 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 14 | I did n't even know them who , who lived next door to her at the side of . |
| 15 | Lord Lawson , as he now is , gives many ‘ through the keyhole ’ insights into the woman who lived next door to him for six years , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 16 | Peter Scudamore is riding the horse that lives next door to him in Naunton . |
| 17 | His mother , Monica , aged 80 , who now lives next door to him in Wheatlands , not far from the school , was a primary school teacher and his late father a railway signalman . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to live next door to him in Ipswich , great lad , ’ he says . |
| 19 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 20 | You know , you remember Margaret , next door to us in Hartsett Close |
| 21 | A last letter to him from Tyndale ended , ‘ Sir , your wife is well content with the will of God and would not , for her sake , have the glory of God hindered . ’ |
| 22 | Beatrix wrote to say her brother had served with my father and in his last letter to her before dying had asked her to find out whether his old comrade was still alive . ’ |