Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 2 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 5 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 6 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 7 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 8 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 9 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 10 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 11 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 12 | Was she genuinely reaching out to him as a last source of help ? |
| 13 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 14 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I would like to think you could perhaps mention to Peter if you see him in the next couple of days , I do n't know whether he pops into the office but we , it would be nice if you could if you could mention |
| 18 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 19 | I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days . |
| 20 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 21 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 22 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 23 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 25 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 26 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 27 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |