Example sentences of "him [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
7 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
8 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
9 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
10 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
11 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
12 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
13 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |