Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 2 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 3 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 4 | Which of the other items on this list if any , have you collected in the last year ? |
| 5 | You know you had to put how many operations have you had in the last ten years and have are you er receiving any treatment and all that bloody blah blah blah . |
| 6 | That way you see what it was you liked in the first place , and you see it fresh and clean again — like new . |
| 7 | Consider , for example , the question ‘ Which textbooks have you read in the last six months ? ’ . |
| 8 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 9 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 10 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 11 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 12 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 13 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 14 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 15 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 16 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 17 | He did n't want them jailed in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah , I think we should say that , well really , unless we 've got anything scheduled in the next week or two , let's get them out the way |
| 20 | The first and last sections of the book together add more to our knowledge of Degas ' sculpture than anything published in the last three or four decades . |