Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 4 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 5 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 6 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |
| 7 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 8 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 9 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 10 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |