Example sentences of "[verb] him [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've arranged for you to meet him first . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm staying , ’ he told me when I visited him last July . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've got to find him first , ’ muttered Lou defiantly . |
| 4 | Yeah I seen him last night but not to talk to . |
| 5 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |
| 6 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 7 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 8 | His agent phoned him last week . |
| 9 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 10 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 11 | The first positive statement to this effect in the available sources is to be found in Mustakimzade , who not only places him first in his list but also states explicitly , on the authority of the historian " Aziz Efendi ( ? ) , that Molla Fenari was the first to hold the office of Mufti in the Ottoman state . |
| 12 | In connection with some furniture poor Mary was ill-advised enough to sell him last year . |
| 13 | The lure of volumes , in the wake of the Advanced Computing Environment fiasco , is pushing him first into Sun 's domain where the majority of users who care are said to prefer Motif over Open Look ( 36% versus 29% ) . |
| 14 | Ray McAnally played him first . |
| 15 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 16 | I told him last summer about it . |
| 17 | Told him last Friday . |
| 18 | ‘ Then we just kill him first . ’ |
| 19 | She imagined him next morning parading in his gallery , cosseting his reputation , toadying to his rich clients , dissociating himself from whatever unpleasantness the Josephs faced . |
| 20 | Two other garages have been hit by the same man in just 6 days and a police helicopter is on standby to track him next time he strikes . |
| 21 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 22 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 23 | Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle . |
| 24 | a couple of you might have seen him last saturday — he is — hmm — quite big … |
| 25 | I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then ? |
| 26 | She provoked him first to talk about his interests , the books he read , the films he watched . |
| 27 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 28 | ‘ This one sounds quite promising , but of course I must see him first — one ca n't always tell from the application , he added primly . |
| 29 | I 'll see him first . ’ |
| 30 | Here you can see him second last but making ground now . |