Example sentences of "[verb] it in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 3 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 4 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 5 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 6 | And then you find that when they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to realize . |
| 7 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 8 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 9 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 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 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 12 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 13 | We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red . |
| 14 | As Mahmood , the secretary of the strike committee , put it in the tenth month of the strike : ‘ When the women first joined Grunwick they were just like ordinary women . |
| 15 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 16 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 17 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 18 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 19 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 20 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 23 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 24 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 27 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 28 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |