Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 2 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 3 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 4 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 5 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 6 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 7 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 8 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 9 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 10 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 11 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 13 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 14 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 15 | Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next . |
| 16 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 17 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 18 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 19 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 20 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 21 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 22 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 23 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 24 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 25 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 26 | When temporary workers responding to the British Labour Force Survey were themselves invited to differentiate between these two groups , two-thirds placed themselves in the first category . |
| 27 | Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve . |
| 28 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 29 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |