Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 2 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 3 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 4 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 5 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
| 6 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 7 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 8 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 10 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 12 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 13 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 14 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
| 15 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 16 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 17 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 18 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 19 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 20 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 21 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 22 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 23 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 24 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 26 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | I would also like , and I know this is where I 'll get problems I would if we are gon na try and get the kids into a routine over them doing their work I think the easiest routine for them to have is that you do you , you get , you have your lesson you do your homework that night and you hand it in the next day . |
| 29 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 30 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |