Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 2 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 3 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 4 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 5 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |
| 6 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 7 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 8 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 9 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 10 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 11 | Did there emerge in the twentieth century a distinctive network of Asian capital , embracing Chinese , Indian and Japanese capitalists , distinct from the European network which had dominated South East Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century ? |
| 12 | To encourage Lewis in this direction , Eliot gave him to review in the next year Egyptian Mummies and Essays on the Evolution of Man by Elliot Smith , as well as Medicine , Magic and Religion by W. H. R. Rivers . |
| 13 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 14 | How much did he earn in the fourth week ? |
| 15 | Er I said I think in the first lecture , the founding fathers saw the presidency as a check , as a control on the legislature er and er in periods of crisis legislatures find it very difficult to respond . |
| 16 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 17 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 18 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 19 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 20 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |