Example sentences of "him [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 2 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 3 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 4 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 5 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 6 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 7 | ‘ Okay , ’ she walked with him down to the first landing . |
| 8 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 9 | Horne should have increased Everton 's lead when Ebbrell 's ball put him through in the 62nd minute but he delayed too long . |
| 10 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 13 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |
| 14 | If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down . |
| 15 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 16 | They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor . |
| 17 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 18 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 20 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 21 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 22 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 23 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 24 | Hall faces a three-match ban , which would also rule him out of the third round FA Cup tie at Middlesbrough on January 3 , three days before the Selhurst Park showdown . |
| 25 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
| 26 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 27 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 28 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 30 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |