Example sentences of "him in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Forlani , 66 , had on May 17 withdrawn his candidacy for the presidency after up to 60 members of parties participating in the former ruling coalition , including many DC deputies , had failed to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 .
2 What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ?
3 Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place .
4 He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place .
5 Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all .
9 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 .
10 Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place .
11 Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ?
12 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 .
13 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 ) !
14 ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 You never wanted him in the first place . ’
19 ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’
20 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 .
21 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 . ’
22 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 .
23 I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’
24 His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank .
25 ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ?
26 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 ?
27 He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place .
28 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 .
29 Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ?
30 ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly .
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