Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 3 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 4 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 5 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 6 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But you still have n't told me what brought you here in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 11 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm a good fighter , I 've had 18 wins in 18 fights , and knocked seven of them out in the first round . |
| 13 | Peter Roberts of Kuperard , who launched the charity scheme last year , says this is enough to purchase 350 mats ( against the 90 he was able to distribute last year ) , and he is planning to hand them out in the second week of January . |
| 14 | Knocked them out in the tenth round . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 16 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 17 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 18 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 19 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 20 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 22 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 23 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 24 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 25 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 26 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 27 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 28 | ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong . |
| 29 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 30 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |