Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 4 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 7 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 8 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |
| 9 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 15 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 16 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 17 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 18 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |