Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've got to find him first , ’ muttered Lou defiantly . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone forgot to release him last night , ’ one of them shouted . |
| 4 | and if you 'd like to ring him first and |
| 5 | ‘ Yesterday probably because the photos were n't in the house when I called to see him last night . |
| 6 | ’ I 'd have to see him first . ’ |
| 7 | a couple of you might have seen him last saturday — he is — hmm — quite big … |
| 8 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 9 | Death had brushed Dustin 's cheek twice , threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb . |
| 10 | You 'll have to remind him next time he decides not to bother coming that he 's supposed to come in case |
| 11 | Accordingly , I would go to see him first . |
| 12 | ‘ Sarah did n't know he was n't home until she went to call him next morning and found he had n't slept in his bed . |
| 13 | I said Victor had tried to call him first but could get no answer . |
| 14 | ‘ We did ask him first , ’ Nell said . |
| 15 | He had wanted to go dispatched him first to Mauritius and then to South Africa where , on 26 July 1944 , he died . |
| 16 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 17 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 18 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 19 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |
| 20 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 21 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 22 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 23 | Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle . |
| 24 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 25 | Threaten to smack him next time . |
| 26 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 27 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |
| 28 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 29 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |