Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 2 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 3 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 4 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 5 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 6 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 7 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 8 | And it was seldom his tunes failed to draw the odd penny from a shopkeeper 's pocket or , indeed , a bottle from the publican to sustain him to the next village . |
| 9 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 10 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 11 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 12 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 13 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 14 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 15 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 16 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 17 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 18 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 19 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 20 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 21 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 22 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 23 | ‘ And I am sure that a mighty host awaits him in the Next World . ’ |
| 24 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 25 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 26 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 27 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 28 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 29 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 30 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |