Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pepys met him in 1665 . |
| 2 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 5 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 6 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 7 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 8 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 9 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 10 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 11 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 12 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 13 | Mr Hutchinson , who said wallabies would be able to live in the wild in Britain on their diet of grass and fruit , appealed to anyone seeing Wally to call him on 0207521133 . |
| 14 | Captain Meredith treated him to one of his freezing looks . |
| 15 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 16 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 17 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 18 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 19 | Zack told him in three angry sentences . |
| 20 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 21 | Buck outdrove him by forty yards . |
| 22 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 23 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 24 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 25 | UNESCO selected him in 1974 as one of the world 's ten foremost researchers in Parapsychology . |
| 26 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 27 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 28 | Jane accompanied him on one of his forays one evening . |
| 29 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 30 | This magnificent , and still valuable , work earned him in 1920 the Lyell medal of the Geological Society of London ( of which he was a senior fellow and later vice-president ) and an honorary doctorate ( 1919 ) from the University of Wales . |