Example sentences of "to i [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 9 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 14 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 18 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 21 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 22 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 23 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |