Example sentences of "him [num ord] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 2 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 3 | He had wanted to go dispatched him first to Mauritius and then to South Africa where , on 26 July 1944 , he died . |
| 4 | But I took him first to Connor 's Quay to join a sh erm ship there . |
| 5 | They awaited him first at Yenipazar , but when Murad refused to see them there , they returned to Edirne to await him . |
| 6 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 7 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 8 | The druggist surreptitiously slid Maxim 's coffee along the counter , fixing him next to Agnes . |