Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 2 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 3 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 4 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 5 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 6 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 8 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 9 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 10 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 14 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 15 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 16 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 17 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 18 | ‘ How much money have you given him in the last three weeks ? ’ |
| 19 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 21 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 22 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 23 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 24 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 25 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 26 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 27 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 28 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |