Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 3 | Can you pull in at the next lay-by ? ’ |
| 4 | Did you find out from the last exercise that to get the area of a triangle we simply do the following ? |
| 5 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | Shall we move on to the next mill ? ’ |
| 8 | Good can we move on to the next one ? |
| 9 | Shall we go on to the next thing ? |
| 10 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |
| 11 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 12 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 14 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 15 | Would he back out at the last moment ? |
| 16 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 17 | But let us get back to the sixteenth century . |