Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 2 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 3 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 4 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 5 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 6 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 7 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 8 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 9 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 10 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 11 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |