Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 3 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 4 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 6 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 7 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 8 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 9 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 10 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 11 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 12 | He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships . |
| 13 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 14 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 15 | Worst of all , some tiles are inaccessible without forming a bridge with others — think on your toes and pair them off in the right order , or it 's back to the beginning . |
| 16 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 17 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 18 | Forced into a run chase , Park lost wickets quickly , Brian Coutts finishing them off in the 39th over with three for 19 . |
| 19 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 20 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 21 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 22 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 25 | At present , Ann led and Megan followed , but that would sort itself out in the long run . |
| 26 | But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode . |
| 27 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 28 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 29 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 30 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |