Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 6 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 7 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 12 | Forced into a run chase , Park lost wickets quickly , Brian Coutts finishing them off in the 39th over with three for 19 . |
| 13 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 14 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 15 | We 'll fix you up in the best hotel on the station . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you back in the first person ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 18 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 22 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 23 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 24 | People sent their daughters to Cambridge School , dressing them up in the toffee-brown and pale-blue uniform Elizabeth Jarvis had selected . |
| 25 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I ‘ discovered ’ them back in the mid-'70s , playing in a club called Cinderella 2 . |
| 27 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |
| 28 | The moment we put them back in the open spaces where they belong , in the social life they intuitively understand , horses use not only their innate behaviour but also their intelligent adaptability to its fullest . |
| 29 | If you want to pick up some more , ring me back in the next twenty minutes . |
| 30 | IRENE Boyd took the minutes when our branch held a staff meeting and typed them out in the following verse : |