Example sentences of "[vb past] we [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ When we finally got there , tired and bedraggled , the custodian sent us packing on the next ferry because we did n't have the 2/6 entry fee ! ’
3 Now what did we say about the next lesson ?
4 If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
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