Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 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 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 15 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 19 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 22 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 23 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 24 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 25 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 26 | One is that that registered disabled employees and we will be bringing forward further proposals on initiatives to you at the next meeting , and I hope that if you agree , that will be amongst other things with the issue of non-registered disabled employees , and the other consideration in looking at movements in targets and so on , is inevitably the whole job market situation and the opportunities for achieving that . |
| 27 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 28 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 29 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 30 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |