Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 2 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 3 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 4 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 5 | O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 . |
| 6 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 7 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 8 | The gang assaulted him during the drive to Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire , then threw him out of the car . |
| 9 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 10 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 11 | These replies were highly satisfactory to the King , who summoned Baldwin to the Palace at 3.15 p.m. and charged him with the task of forming a Government . |
| 12 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 13 | Fonda claimed that this first experience began the halt of a downhill slide into alcoholism , acquisitive , habitual spending on fast cars , Cessna airplanes , fine suits and provided him with the insight to revoke his staunch conservative opinions and adopt a liberalistic , casual , ‘ don't-give-a-fuck approach to life ’ . |
| 14 | A gun barrel thrust into the fireplace provided him with the means of heating substances to high temperatures . |
| 15 | If it was Morrissey who would eventually encourage Stephen to write more songs ( for the set that would become the No.1 album , ‘ Viva Hate ’ , at the beginning of 1988 ) , it was Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr — now one half of Electronic with New Order 's Bernard Sumner — who provided him with the opportunity to learn his craft as the guitar player 's producer par excellence . |
| 16 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 17 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 18 | The proposed closure at Cortonwood , Rotherham , in the heart of the militant Yorkshire Area , then provided him with the opportunity to launch a strike , under Rule 41 and the 1981 Yorkshire ballot , without , as he perceived it , any need for the potentially damaging national ballot which Rule 43 demanded . |
| 19 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 20 | Educational success provided him with the means of breaching the barrier of his lowly birth and enabled him to gain access to the lower echelons of the petty bourgeoisie as an engineer in the French railway system . |
| 21 | In 1905 Hammerton was invited to join Harmsworth 's Amalgamated Press , then the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world , and for the next seventeen years his employer 's energetic and ‘ radium-like personality ’ , as described by Hammerton , provided him with the background to his life 's work . |
| 22 | The latter provided him with the income needed to purchase a house beside the bowling green at Whitehall , and York also secured his election as MP for New Romney in 1661 . |
| 23 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 24 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 25 | Another hypothesis , which is really an adaptation of the first , is that Lady Hoby , finding the boy 's shoddy work , thrashed him across the head and shoulders with a blackthorn stick and then found out , too late , that she had gone too far — William was dead . |
| 26 | He felt nothing as the angel bore him to the grave below , no pain as the solid granite drove shattered ribs deep into his lungs . |
| 27 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 28 | Beattie invited him into the living room . |
| 29 | I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him . |
| 30 | Sarah went on to ask Gedge to dedicate ‘ Shatner ’ to her while risque Katy invited him to the Plaza after the concert ! |