Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 3 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 4 | One Small Step is building a laboratory that will help keep many children from lives spent in a wheelchair … please help to make this possible for our kids and run for them in the next London Marathon . |
| 5 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 6 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 7 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 8 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 9 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 10 | It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year . |
| 11 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 12 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 13 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
| 14 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 15 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 16 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 17 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 18 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 20 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 21 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 22 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 23 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 24 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 25 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 26 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 27 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 28 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
| 29 | One of the most illuminating insights into the character of Frederick Barbarossa comes from the descriptions of him in the Fourth Book of Bishop Otto von Freising and from Rahewin , his twelfth-century biographer . |
| 30 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |