Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Where the man was , gone or waiting for him behind the next tree , he had no idea . |
| 33 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 34 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 35 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 36 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 37 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 42 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 46 | 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 ? |
| 47 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 48 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 49 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 50 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 54 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 55 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 58 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 59 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 60 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |