Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 7 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 8 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 11 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 15 | Knocked them out in the tenth round . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 18 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | If you want to pick up some more , ring me back in the next twenty minutes . |
| 20 | Forced into a run chase , Park lost wickets quickly , Brian Coutts finishing them off in the 39th over with three for 19 . |
| 21 | Lee Philpott pulled one back in the 73rd minute and then super sub John Francis scored twice to grab an unlikely draw . |
| 22 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 23 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 24 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 25 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 26 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 27 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 28 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 29 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 30 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |