Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt nervous in the second half , because I knew one mistake could cost the game . |
| 2 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 3 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |
| 5 | The reasons for their getting involved in the first place are multiplex , involving many related processes , which I will endeavour to uncover . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 8 | find a cure erm perhaps we should try and think about why we get depressed in the first place , I know there 's lot of people who co , here have had problems . |
| 9 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 10 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 11 | It becomes available in the fourth quarter at $500 a licence . |
| 12 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |