Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He did n't want them jailed in the first place .
2 He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope .
3 So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place .
4 In his Championship-winning days , Smith would be without goals for four or five games then find them flowing in the next five or so .
5 It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’
6 But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place .
7 This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place .
  Next page