Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Lawler will be upset that I 'm only bringing him eight brace , but I did my best , ’ Maggie said as they pulled away . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , to let Blackbeard know we only charged him fifty per cent for returning it . ’ |
| 3 | His three-year contract with Wigan only allows him one season abroad and he does not believe Britain 's champion team will permit him to play club football in Australia again . |
| 4 | His three-year contract with Wigan only allows him one season abroad and he does not believe Britain 's champion team will permit him to play club football in Australia again . |
| 5 | Wigan only allows him one season abroad and he does not believe Britain 's champion team will permit him to play club football in Australia again . |
| 6 | Phil 's just landed on it , it 's only cost him fifty quid ! |
| 7 | He had a charismatic quality about him that had long made him one of Europe 's most eligible bachelors . |
| 8 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 9 | Er it was , and he was only paying him twenty two pound a week at the time . |
| 10 | It only takes him twenty five minutes ? |
| 11 | But you only pay him fifty percent of his salary . |
| 12 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 13 | I denounced the judges who only gave him two ( out of ten ) for his best wave , but he said , ‘ It was fair . |
| 14 | BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV . |
| 15 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
| 16 | He meant , among other things , are you living with anyone ? and she knew it , but she cared too much for the day together to tell him one way or the other . |
| 17 | A hugely impressive return of eight goals from just 11 games is a true reflection of his amazing turnaround and it has already made him one of the buys of the season , even at that sizeable price tag . |
| 18 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 19 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 20 | can I just ask him one question about it , erm , I 'm not an accountant and you probably , I 'm sure you know a lot more about accounts than I do , but in fact if you look at the revenue accounts for the year we 're talking about ended August nineteen ninety two at page a hundred and thirty two , do you see that ? |
| 21 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 22 | Her own heart was in such a state of turmoil that she could n't possibly give him one more piece of advice . |
| 23 | You 'd still see him three times a week . " |
| 24 | Brian and I lost fortunes back and forth between us , but Terry usually came out ahead — I still owe him two hundred dollars . |
| 25 | He hit one of the great five irons , too , at the last hole , a shot that still gives him one of those lovely shivers of success whenever he thinks about it . |
| 26 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 27 | From this point on , Flaubert must have known that any full length novel would probably take him five to seven years ; and therefore that most of his back-burner projects would inevitably boil themselves dry in the pot . |
| 28 | When he goes inside , he sees the local grocer with a rather oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands , and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics , mostly bad , and in very small print . |
| 29 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 30 | ‘ That depends how you mean ‘ thaw ’ , ’ she conceded coolly , ‘ Frankly I would n't trust him one inch . |