Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 32 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 33 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
| 34 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 35 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 36 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 37 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 38 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 39 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 40 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 41 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 42 | All Scotland 's impressive technique and tactical shrewdness went for nought in the 26th minute , though , when they lost a depressingly poor goal . |
| 43 | So when the personnel officer told her she 'd be hearing from them in the next two days , Muriel went away optimistic . |
| 44 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 45 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 46 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 47 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 48 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 49 | This city was naturally of great strategic importance : much of the communication between Francia and the eastern Mediterranean seems to have passed through it in the sixth century . |
| 50 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 51 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 52 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 53 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 54 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 55 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 56 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 57 | Sitting beside her in the first half were the managing director of Digital Equipment Mr Geoffrey Shingles , and the Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Trust Professor Gerald Manners ; and in the second Mr Richard Martin director of Corporate Affairs at Digital , and Mr Jeremy Isaacs the Director of the Royal Opera House . |
| 58 | How did you come across her in the first place ? ’ |
| 59 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 60 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |