Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
2 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
3 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
4 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
5 | Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes . |
6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
7 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
8 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
9 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
10 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
11 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
12 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
13 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
14 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
15 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
16 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
17 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
18 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
19 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
20 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
21 | FERRIS J. This is an appeal by the third party , an accountant , from an order of Master Munrow made on 3 October 1991 dismissing his application that a third party notice , served upon him by the third defendant in the main action , should be struck out . |
22 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
23 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
24 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
25 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
26 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
27 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
28 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
29 | If you are referring to him to a third party , then you may wish to call him ‘ Mr Stevens senior ’ to distinguish him from myself . |
30 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |