Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 32 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 33 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 34 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 35 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 36 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 37 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 38 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 39 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 40 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |
| 41 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 42 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 43 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 44 | I have n't asked her since the first time . |
| 45 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 46 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 47 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 48 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 49 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 50 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 51 | Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week . |
| 52 | As long as er I keep finding places that I have n't , you know thi this is leaving it to the la I have n't left it till the last minute , but all las la you know I keep looking at it and thinking well |
| 53 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 54 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 55 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 56 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 57 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 58 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 59 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 60 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |