Example sentences of "him [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll give him seventy-five milligrams of pethidine , get the shots and go from there . ’ |
| 2 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 3 | He seemed to have forgotten I had tried to walk out on him fifty kilometres or so back . |
| 4 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 5 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 6 | He gives no Bill gives him fifty P , fifty P to , for whenever he sees her |
| 7 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 8 | But you only pay him fifty percent of his salary . |
| 9 | Sir Walter Scott , however , had no such constraints upon him fifty years later , and he had the added advantage of seeing Lady Grange 's journal . |
| 10 | If he said the punter had paid him fifty quid , Joe knew that was what had been paid . |
| 11 | Maybe she should have told him fifty quid . |
| 12 | Phil 's just landed on it , it 's only cost him fifty quid ! |
| 13 | No he 's on a round the world ticket , it 's cost him eleven pound . |
| 14 | His taste was individual : he had a pink suit and matching overcoat , both of thick wool , that cost him 3000 Marks ( the fee for a three-act ballet ) ; they were worn with an orange tie . |
| 15 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 16 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 17 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 18 | She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Lawler will be upset that I 'm only bringing him eight brace , but I did my best , ’ Maggie said as they pulled away . |
| 20 | In March , however , they relented and — perhaps persuaded by the convalescent Hamilton — agreed to pay him eight guineas . |
| 21 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 22 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 23 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 24 | The girl behind the counter gave him eight £1 coins . |
| 25 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 26 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |
| 27 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 28 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 29 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 30 | The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set . |