Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 2 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 3 | Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas . |
| 4 | The events of 5 October convinced him of the need to get involved again . |
| 5 | One person recognised him from the Bath Festival . |
| 6 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 7 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
| 8 | As the inquest broke for lunch one relative cornered him in the street . |
| 9 | In October 1961 Macmillan appointed him to the newly invented office of chief secretary to the Treasury , whose unenviable task was to play the role of Scrooge towards popular proposals for public expenditure . |
| 10 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 11 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |
| 12 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 13 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 14 | Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted . |
| 15 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 16 | The first two shots took him in the shoulder and the left chest . |
| 17 | The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school . |
| 18 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 19 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 20 | Everyone at the Palace was pleased when Mel won an FA Cup winner 's medal with Southampton in 1976 , but he re-appeared briefly in our colours on loan in the winter of 1977–78 and his extra half-dozen games took him into the elite group of those who have played over 250 first class matches for our club . |