Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’
2 The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market .
3 Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks .
4 Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep .
5 This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ?
6 ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong .
7 ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance .
8 She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening .
9 He could have dropped me off the first time !
10 It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place .
11 GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it .
12 Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial :
13 According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him .
14 McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute .
15 As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place .
16 This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place .
17 Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net .
18 ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’
19 Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place .
20 It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place .
21 ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ?
22 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
23 Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable .
24 But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place .
25 My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place .
26 It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place .
27 He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 .
28 After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea .
29 So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out .
30 ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out .
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