Example sentences of "[vb past] him two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She bore him two daughters and was buried 13 June 1691 , five days after her husband .
2 Betty bore him two daughters .
3 She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink .
4 Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio .
5 It cost him two marriages .
6 At once his equerry handed him two files .
7 We showed him two films , and gave him evidence of change in the motives of men affecting trouble spots and putting things to rights , socially and politically in many parts of the world .
8 By the time we collected him two weeks later he had grown considerably .
9 His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden .
10 On 24 December 1663 he married Bridget , daughter of Sir William Drury of Besthorpe , Norfolk , and widow of a Cheshire landowner , Charles , fourth Viscount Kilmorey ; she brought him two sons and another daughter .
11 I brought him two days later and he saw you .
12 In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future .
13 took him two reactions ,
14 It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
15 In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path .
16 Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France .
17 It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour .
18 The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete .
19 ‘ Joseph Buquet saw him two days ago .
20 No doubt they offered him two cups of coffee , extra sugar , a slug of cognac ?
21 Murphy has recaptured the old form that earned him two honours with the Ulster senior team , winning one inter-provincial championship at Lahinch , in 1986 .
22 He had a little pink around his muzzle and eyes when I bought him two years ago , but this has been gradually increasing and is now quite extensive .
23 Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week .
24 He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength .
25 Lyn gave him two pounds .
26 She gave him two goodwill letters addressed to legendary West Indian cricketers Mr Wes Hall and Sir Garfield Sobers .
27 However , he seems to have overlooked the fact that Ferrari gave him two race wins last year and that the Scuderia 's tally of six victories this year is four more than Williams was able to score .
28 I pulled up underneath the e/a and gave him two bursts … the e/a was last seen at sea level eight miles away heading towards Sicily with some speed but apparently little concern . ’
29 BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV .
30 When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court .
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