Example sentences of "[vb past] him in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 2 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 3 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 4 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 5 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 6 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 7 | You saw him in the early thirties ? |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 9 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |