Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic .
2 A rare eagle three at the eighth helped him to a 69 alongside Langer and a cluster of others .
3 ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said .
4 Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ .
5 At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona .
6 Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms .
7 He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie .
8 By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide .
9 Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge .
10 Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat .
11 The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory .
12 Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ?
13 I did see him as a six year old child .
14 Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult .
15 In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke !
16 In the process Kurt had graduated from business adviser to trusted friend ; Hugo had rewarded him with a fifteen per cent share of the business and never regretted it .
17 Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor .
18 Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban .
19 Javed Miandad receiving from Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif documents entitling him to a 660 sq .
20 A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside .
21 Did you know you was gon na have him on the twenty
22 If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition .
23 It was good skill and strength that got him around the center-half ( Wetherall I think ) and his near post shoy crept in via Beeny .
24 I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back .
25 So I mean , I will continue to harass him through the twelve months if possible , because I think
26 I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms .
27 Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry .
28 During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s .
29 So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay .
30 I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood .
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