Example sentences of "him [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORLD champion motor racing driver Nigel Mansell will earn nearly £10 million this year , putting him fourth on the list of the world 's highest-paid sportsmen . |
| 2 | He scored 48,892 runs for Hampshire at an average of 48.84 , and , in all first-class cricket , he accumulated no less than 55,061 ( average 47.67 ) , leaving him fourth in the world rankings . |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , do that , ’ Joe suggested , and he walked over and put his hand behind the man 's head and pushed him face-first into the screen . |
| 4 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 5 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 6 | This he continued to do until his illness confined him first to his room and finally to his bed . |
| 7 | This callousness was repeated later when she cruelly promoted the young Krishnamurti as the new ‘ Lord Maitreya ’ , allowing him first to be abused by the theosophical pederast Charles Leadbeater and later sent to Harrow . |
| 8 | He had wanted to go dispatched him first to Mauritius and then to South Africa where , on 26 July 1944 , he died . |
| 9 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 10 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 11 | But I took him first to Connor 's Quay to join a sh erm ship there . |
| 12 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 13 | She kissed him first on his neck , then his face and finally his mouth . |
| 14 | Southey looked for him first at the Salutation and Cat in Newgate Street , where the landlord had given Coleridge free quarters because his conversation was so good for trade . |
| 15 | They awaited him first at Yenipazar , but when Murad refused to see them there , they returned to Edirne to await him . |
| 16 | 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% ) . |
| 17 | She should ask him first before getting him things . |
| 18 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 19 | I met him first in the Lubyanka , that brick lump on Manchester 's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Death had brushed Dustin 's cheek twice , threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb . |
| 23 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , Mr Felse ! ’ said Lesley , opening the door to him , and blessedly forgetting to think of him first by his rank and office . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't put him next to other horses , but he can see them clearly , only a field away , and he does n't fret or bother at all . |
| 26 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 27 | The druggist surreptitiously slid Maxim 's coffee along the counter , fixing him next to Agnes . |