Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 4 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 5 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 6 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 8 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 9 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 10 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 11 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 12 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 13 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 14 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 15 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 16 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 18 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 19 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 20 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 21 | Knocked them out in the tenth round . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 23 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 24 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 25 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 26 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 27 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 28 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 29 | Well , only the chap who rogered you regularly in the sixties . ’ |
| 30 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |