Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 2 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 3 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 4 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 5 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 6 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 7 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 8 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 9 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 10 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 11 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 12 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 13 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 14 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 15 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 16 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 17 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 18 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 21 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 22 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 26 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 27 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 28 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 29 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 30 | 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 . |