Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 2 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 3 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 4 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 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 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 9 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 10 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 11 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 12 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |