Example sentences of "him [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 2 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 3 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 6 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 7 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 8 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 9 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 13 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 14 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 15 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 16 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 17 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 18 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 19 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 20 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 21 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 26 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |