Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 2 | A , you might not want to come and join my company in the first place |
| 3 | Now I 'm finding it difficult to find my way to the correct place . |
| 4 | ‘ I told 'im 'e was a no-good whoreson an' 'e should n't 'ave wasted my time in the first place , ’ Billy replied , his blue eyes blazing at the memory of it . |
| 5 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |
| 6 | She never brought back her correspondence from the other place , either . |
| 7 | This information could be used to help practitioners — such as doctors and social workers — predict which children were most at risk from abuse , or further abuse , and target their intervention in the appropriate places . |
| 8 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 9 | Two leaders of the Reform Circle movement , Csaba Tabajdi and Ferenc Gazso , are missing from the new line-up , while the People 's Democracy Platform , the reformists ' left-wing allies , seemed to have got more than their share of the leading places . |
| 10 | No , I do n't want a lecture on the birds and the bees , I was just wondering where software companies find them , and how they learn their art in the first place ? |
| 11 | Children tend to tailor their behaviour to the particular places in which , and different persons with whom , they find themselves . |
| 12 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 13 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 14 | Women 's inferior economic position must affect their access to the better places , but no work has been done to substantiate this point . |
| 15 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 16 | I though Tyler was the best writer NME ever had and I 've since found out that him and Ian McDonald were the ones that gave the NME its style in the first place . |
| 17 | We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us . |
| 18 | It is intriguing to wonder how some of the emigrants found their way to the outlandish places in which they settled , or how Ayrshire names came to be given to spots which are amongst the most isolated on earth . |
| 19 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
| 20 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 21 | A bitter old biddy , eating herself alive with bile , pretending to be crippled to tie her son to the old place , sucking all the life out of him . |
| 22 | Hove was elegant , Brighton racy , and Kemp Town struggling , but there was something louche about the whole place . |
| 23 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
| 24 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 25 | With exquisite logic , Sonic Boom is on the panel , a man who could n't stop talking , I 'm sure , if he could be bothered to open his mouth in the first place . |
| 26 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 27 | After he became king , Aldhelm wrote a treatise on metre for him in the form of a letter to Arcircius ( Aldfrith ) and Adomnán , abbot of Iona , gave him a copy of his work on The Holy Places ( HE V , 15 ) . |
| 28 | As Owen had not appointed Yussuf to his service in the first place but Yussuf had appointed himself , this seemed beside the point . |
| 29 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend restate his commitment to the assisted places scheme in our schools , which is an extremely cost-effective way of sending children of high ability to good schools ? |