Example sentences of "he [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
2 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
3 This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign .
4 Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life .
5 I took him to the first Giants game when he was three .
6 She had hardly seen him over the last months .
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