Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here , in the Syrian capital far to the north of Damascus , that the term ‘ Christian ’ was to be applied to them for the first time . |
| 2 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 3 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 4 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 5 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 8 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 9 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 10 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 11 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 12 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 13 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 14 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 15 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 16 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 17 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 18 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 19 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 20 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 21 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 22 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 23 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 24 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 26 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 27 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 28 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 29 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 30 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |