Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 5 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 6 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 7 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 8 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 9 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 10 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 11 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 12 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 14 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 15 | Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid . |
| 16 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 17 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 18 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 19 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 20 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 21 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 22 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 23 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 24 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 25 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 26 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 27 | Knocked them out in the tenth round . |
| 28 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 29 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 30 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |