Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 3 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 4 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 5 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 6 | And there you have , not a very good picture , but you can see this was th with the goods shed as per the last ordnance survey map . |
| 7 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 8 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 9 | We 've heard a lot this morning er about the merits of client server and where it 's come from in the last five years . |
| 10 | These have just come in in the last year . |
| 11 | The orang-utan lineage appears to have originated from within the first trend , with further modifications of skull and postcrania , but with little change in environments . |
| 12 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 14 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 15 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 16 | It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course . |
| 17 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 18 | This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible . |
| 19 | A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have . |
| 20 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 21 | This meant that a decompression stop was not required and that these parameters would be stored in the memory , to be compensated for on the next dive . |
| 22 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 24 | The Bank has been written to on the 5th February 1993 seeking a meeting for this purpose . |
| 25 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 26 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 27 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 28 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 29 | New plans to cut central — and republican — government spending are to be agreed upon for the second half of the year . |
| 30 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |