Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 2 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 3 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 4 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 5 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 6 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 7 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 8 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 9 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 10 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 11 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 12 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 13 | Consider , for example , the question ‘ Which textbooks have you read in the last six months ? ’ . |
| 14 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |