Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] his [noun sg] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 2 | There followed a period of ten years of overwork and stagnant promotion , but his career took off with his promotion first to assistant secretary and then to be the chairman of the Prison Commission ( 1932–9 ) . |
| 3 | Mr Neilsen set out on his campaign last year , after his wife had been approached by a curbcrawler . |
| 4 | That evening while wandering round the bazaar I was suddenly greeted with great friendliness by the erstwhile sufferer , who announced that he was now all right and was going back to his village next morning . |
| 5 | She thought back to his anger last night . |