Example sentences of "to see the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 3rd September 1988 , along with 100,000 other people , I went to Denby Dale to see the ninth mammoth pie to be baked there . |
| 2 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 3 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 4 | ‘ I want to see the second one — Neferukhebit , ’ said Huy briskly . |
| 5 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 6 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 7 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 8 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 9 | Boro fans seem to sense as much , with only 12,000 on hand to see the first of their team 's four games in eight days on Monday . |
| 10 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 11 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |
| 12 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 13 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 14 | It is plausible to see the first point as spelling out the root problem for a philosophical account of knowledge , and the second as linked to Peirce 's anti-naturalism . |
| 15 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 16 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 17 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 18 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 19 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 20 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 21 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 22 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 23 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 24 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 25 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 26 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 27 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's one I 'd like to see the last of as well . ’ |
| 29 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |
| 30 | Mike says that filming the hunt was be far the hardest job he has ever done , and he was certainly relieved to see the last of running through the forest during the rainy season . |