Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 3 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 4 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 5 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 6 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 7 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |