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