Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 3 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 4 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 6 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 7 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 8 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 9 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 10 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 11 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 12 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 13 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 14 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 15 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 16 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 18 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 19 | This city was naturally of great strategic importance : much of the communication between Francia and the eastern Mediterranean seems to have passed through it in the sixth century . |
| 20 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 21 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 22 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 23 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 24 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 25 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |