Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes .
2 There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking .
3 This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ?
4 Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round .
5 If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel .
6 ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place .
7 ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’
8 How did you come across her in the first place ? ’
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