Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 9 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |