Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival .
2 His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute .
3 His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute .
4 That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses .
5 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
6 I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’
7 Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room .
8 Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties .
9 As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time .
10 She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes .
11 Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring !
12 But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last .
13 He was thinking of Madra pouring beer for him at the last one .
14 ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice .
15 Because Pound was not a combatant , and because he resolutely resisted making easily patriotic and self-righteous gestures ( this is what Homage to Sextus Propertius is about , very largely ) , the impact upon him of the First World War is under-estimated .
16 With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged .
17 Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place .
18 ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’
19 I hardly made a bean from him in the last five .
20 ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all .
21 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
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