Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 2 | However , Mr Doe claims that the reply from the Minister has vindicated him in one of his other chief concerns , the future of the national rail timetable . |
| 3 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 4 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 5 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 6 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 7 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even if she could have got him into one , which she very much doubted , there was no guarantee it could hold his weight without breaking . |
| 10 | During the 1860s , it was Thomas Ayliffe , Jasper having replaced him by 1889 . |
| 11 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 12 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 13 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 16 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've wrapped him in one of Dad 's handkerchiefs , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The dog had awakened him at ten to seven with long-drawn howls and now , a quarter of an hour later , he stood on the threshold of Sheila 's bedroom , glowering . |
| 19 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 20 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 21 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 22 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 23 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 24 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 25 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 26 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 27 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 28 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 29 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 30 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |