Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 2 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 3 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 4 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 5 | Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men . |
| 6 | Knight asked Aung San to meet him on 9 August ; he looked ‘ very thin' . |
| 7 | He had told his informant to meet him at nine o'clock . |
| 8 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 9 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
| 11 | So closely did Burrows identify with Venizelos that the Greek statesman invited him in 1916 to act as the ‘ semi-official ’ representative in London of his breakaway provisional government in Salonika . |
| 12 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 13 | His son Rolf , who disowned him after failing to extract any signs of remorse from him , visited him in 1977 . |
| 14 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 15 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 17 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 18 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 19 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 20 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 21 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 22 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 23 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 24 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 25 | Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels , which were driven ashore by a storm , and then burnt by Wulfnoth . |
| 26 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 27 | But the Gloucesters still regarded him as one of theirs . |
| 28 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 29 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 30 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |