Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 11 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | As it is the structure you are concentrating on , you get it again in the next utterance . |
| 13 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 14 | Once you 've done it once it actually relatively easy for you to improve it an an and getting it better in the next iteration , erm that is exactly the situation you 've got here . |
| 15 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 16 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 17 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 18 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 19 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 20 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 21 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 22 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 25 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 26 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 27 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 30 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |