Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 32 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 33 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 34 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 35 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 36 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 37 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 38 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 39 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 40 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 41 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 42 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 43 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 44 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 45 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 46 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 47 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 48 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 49 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 50 | So even if the associate has , has er , obtained the cheque but has n't managed to get it in the next day , and he dies in an accident . |
| 51 | In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years . |
| 52 | ‘ I honestly believe I can score goals at any level and I plan to prove it in the next month . |