Example sentences of "you [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 2 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 3 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 4 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 5 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 6 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 7 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 9 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |