Example sentences of "to [pron] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 5 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 6 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 7 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 8 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 9 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 11 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 12 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 13 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 14 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 15 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 16 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 17 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 18 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 19 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 20 | But erm I 'll get that to you in the next couple of days or so . |
| 21 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |
| 22 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 23 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 24 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 25 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 26 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 27 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 29 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 30 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |