Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 2 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 3 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 4 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 5 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 6 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 7 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 8 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 9 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 10 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 11 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 12 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |