Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 2 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 3 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 4 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 ) ! |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 8 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 10 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 11 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 12 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 13 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 14 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 15 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 16 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 17 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 18 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
| 19 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 22 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 23 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 24 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 25 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 26 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 29 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |