Example sentences of "him [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 2 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 3 | for him about the second half saying , you know that he would n't have said this , would n't have said that . |
| 4 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 5 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 6 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 9 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 12 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 13 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 14 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |