Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 2 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 3 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 4 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 5 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 6 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 7 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 8 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 9 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 10 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 11 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 12 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 13 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 14 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 15 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 16 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 17 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 18 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 19 | This city was naturally of great strategic importance : much of the communication between Francia and the eastern Mediterranean seems to have passed through it in the sixth century . |
| 20 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 21 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |