Example sentences of "[prep] him in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 2 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 3 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
| 4 | One of the most illuminating insights into the character of Frederick Barbarossa comes from the descriptions of him in the Fourth Book of Bishop Otto von Freising and from Rahewin , his twelfth-century biographer . |
| 5 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 6 | On the other hand , what Alcuin has to say must be set beside the respect accorded Aelfwald 's memory at Hexham where the king was buried ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) , which shows that the community at Hexham thought highly of him in the twelfth century and probably earlier . |
| 7 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 8 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 9 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 11 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 12 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 13 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 14 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 15 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 16 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 17 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 18 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 19 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 21 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 22 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 24 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 25 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
| 28 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |