Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
2 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
3 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
4 | Coleridge 's cottage as it may have appeared early in the nineteenth century . |
5 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
6 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
7 | Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May . |
8 | Where we 'll , where we 'll most probably get knocked out in the first round right . |