Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
| 2 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 3 | You do n't want them in the next group with us do you ? |
| 4 | Several different views have been put forward ; we shall consider them in the next chapter under three headings : |
| 5 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 6 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 7 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |
| 8 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 9 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 10 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 11 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 12 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 13 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 14 | If a Region would like a special overseas visitor not catered for in the Grid system , they can contact me in the first place . |
| 15 | I 'll ring you in the next account period , and I expect I 'll have some very good news for you ! " |
| 16 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |
| 17 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 19 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 20 | Who will join them in the Second Division is still a long way from being decided but GS Stirling enhanced their prospects of survival by beating Inverleith 2-0 . |
| 21 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 22 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 23 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |
| 24 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 25 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 26 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 27 | schools and they 'll They probably wo n't manage anything in the next week because the schools are going on holiday at |
| 28 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |
| 30 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |