Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 32 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 33 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 34 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 35 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 36 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 37 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 38 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 39 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 40 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 41 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 42 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 43 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 44 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 45 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 46 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 47 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 48 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 49 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 52 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 53 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 54 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 55 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 56 | We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red . |
| 57 | As Mahmood , the secretary of the strike committee , put it in the tenth month of the strike : ‘ When the women first joined Grunwick they were just like ordinary women . |
| 58 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 59 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 60 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |