Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 2 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 4 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 5 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |