Example sentences of "[vb pp] he [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
3 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
4 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
5 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
6 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
7 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
8 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
9 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
10 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
11 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
12 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
13 | Where a defendant in the face of evidence that a woman demonstrated lack of consent , alleges belief in consent on the basis of information given him by a third party , he may well , whether expressly or impliedly , be appealing to the idea of female masochism . |
14 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
15 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
16 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
17 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
18 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
19 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
20 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
21 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |