Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents were Anglo-Welsh , his father a beer-drinking , musical miner killed in a pit accident when the boy was fourteen ; his mother dogged , the one who bound a steel hoop of gentility around her Philip , the one who somehow saw him to the University of Wales from which he emerged aged twenty with a double honours degree in History and Mathematics . |
| 2 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 3 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 4 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 5 | But Davis , now with 65 tournament wins worldwide to his credit , has enormous respect for Doherty , who also beat him in the quarter-finals of October 's Rothmans Grand Prix . |
| 6 | That confrontation was none of Sharpe 's business ; his concern was with the two horsemen who now faced him in the wood.They glanced past Sharpe , judging how best to rejoin their comrades , though it was clear they wanted Sharpe 's life first . |
| 7 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 8 | Massenga gestured to the other six men who immediately followed him into the prison compound , each carrying a Mini-Uzi . |
| 9 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |