Example sentences of "he in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
2 | Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to vote for him in the fifth , sixth and seventh rounds . |
3 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
4 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
5 | He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place . |
6 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
10 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
11 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
12 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
13 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
14 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
15 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
16 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
17 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
18 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
19 | You never wanted him in the first place . ’ |
20 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |
23 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
24 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
25 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
26 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
27 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
28 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
29 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
30 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |