Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 2 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 8 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 9 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | FERRIS J. This is an appeal by the third party , an accountant , from an order of Master Munrow made on 3 October 1991 dismissing his application that a third party notice , served upon him by the third defendant in the main action , should be struck out . |
| 12 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 13 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 14 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 15 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 16 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |