Example sentences of "the [num ord] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing to recognise that the interests of producers and consumers are likely to be opposed : for the first will wish to sell at the highest , the second to buy at the lowest price . |
| 2 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 3 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 4 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 5 | I wonder , bearing in mind that incident , however serious , or minor it was , would you be one of the first to go through the Channel Tunnel ? |
| 6 | The two armies met at Sagrajas and the first to engage with the Christians were Motamid 's own native Spanish Moslems . |
| 7 | The soldier was the first to die along the Syrian-Israeli border since 1975 . |
| 8 | Arabella Buckley was the first to recover from the shock of that strange outpouring . |
| 9 | Leamington Spa , the 17th largest society in 1990 , was the first to exit from the market via a merger after declaring a loss . |
| 10 | Among the first to respond to the new President 's call for 75,000 men was John MacArthur , born in Elderslie in Renfrewshire , and Commander of the Highland Guard of Chicago . |
| 11 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 12 | Despite claims made by Henry Faulds , who was the first to publish on the subject , the importance of Herschel 's contribution is generally recognized . |
| 13 | Mina was the first to leave for the fields . |
| 14 | Samsung Electronics Co 's workstation division last week introduced its SWS715 Hewlett-Packard clone workstation , one of the first to emerge onto the market . |
| 15 | He was the first to emerge from the water , partly because he had an appointment with Rose , partly because he could see Araminta leaving . |
| 16 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 17 | The first to assent to the Professor 's new doctrine were the Cavalry … ‘ |
| 18 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 19 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 20 | The Queen Mother was one of the first to arrive on the scene . |
| 21 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 22 | The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point . |
| 23 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 24 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 25 | The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out . |
| 26 | Male cotton leafworm moths fare better , because the first to arrive at the female releases a scent which acts as a jamming signal on its competitors . |
| 27 | Loretta was the first to arrive at the restaurant . |
| 28 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 29 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 30 | The first to rise on the racecourse were the chefs . |