Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 2 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 3 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 4 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 5 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 6 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 7 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 8 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 9 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 10 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 11 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 12 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 13 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 14 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 15 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 16 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 17 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 18 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 19 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 20 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 21 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 22 | ‘ If Wegerle 's interested in playing for England , I 'll put him in my next B squad , ’ said Robson . |
| 23 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 24 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 25 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 26 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |