Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 2 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 3 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 4 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 5 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 6 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 7 | In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years … |
| 8 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 9 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 10 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 11 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 12 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 13 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 14 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 15 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 16 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 17 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 18 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 19 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 20 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 21 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 22 | If I do n't manage to contact you in the next few days , I 'll still send these questionnaires in the hope of a splendidly useful response . |
| 23 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 25 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 26 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 27 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 28 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 29 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 30 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |