Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 3 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 4 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 5 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 6 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 7 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 8 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 9 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 11 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 12 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 13 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 15 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 17 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 18 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 19 | You do n't want them in the next group with us do you ? |
| 20 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 21 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 22 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 24 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 25 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 26 | schools and they 'll They probably wo n't manage anything in the next week because the schools are going on holiday at |
| 27 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |
| 28 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 30 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |