Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 2 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 3 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 4 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 5 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
| 6 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 7 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 8 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 10 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 12 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 13 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 14 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 15 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 16 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 17 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 18 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 19 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 21 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 22 | I would also like , and I know this is where I 'll get problems I would if we are gon na try and get the kids into a routine over them doing their work I think the easiest routine for them to have is that you do you , you get , you have your lesson you do your homework that night and you hand it in the next day . |
| 23 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 24 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 25 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 26 | We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red . |
| 27 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 28 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 29 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 30 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |