Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 2 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 3 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 4 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 5 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 6 | I thought you were an experienced professional or I 'd never have let you go in the first place ! |
| 7 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 8 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 9 | Let us begin in the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 11 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 12 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 13 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 14 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 15 | Yeah , I think we should say that , well really , unless we 've got anything scheduled in the next week or two , let's get them out the way |
| 16 | That was what set me thinking in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |
| 18 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 19 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 20 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 21 | In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so . |
| 22 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 23 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 24 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 25 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 26 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 27 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 28 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 29 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You think I arrived in the last shower or rain ? |