Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 2 | This led him in 1935 to discuss a newly ‘ discovered ’ agricultural Papuan tribe , the description of whose civilization Eliot utilized to criticize what he saw as some of the indulgences of his own inorganic civilization during the unemployment of the thirties . |
| 3 | This brought him to 45 . |
| 4 | He hit six sixes and seven fours in his hundred , then one more six to take him to 110 before he declared , and the scribes were simply stuck for superlatives to convey the majesty of it . |
| 5 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 6 | His final round of 73 left him on 279 , five strokes behind the winner , Australian Peter Fowler , who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph . |
| 7 | Ian Woosnam 's 69 put him on two under , Colin Montgomerie is one under after a 68 , while defending champion Nick Faldo ( 69 ) and Sam Torrance ( 70 ) are level par , Peter Baker ( 70 ) two over and Mark James ( 71 ) four over . |
| 8 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 9 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 10 | Maybe we 'll be able to count him as one of our successes yet . ’ |
| 11 | I knew I needed the disguise because I would be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 12 | And we would never be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 13 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 14 | Lewis — some called him ‘ The Lip ’ — was defending the title he had won in Helsinki in 1983 Johnson had first beaten him in 1985 and of their last five encounters he had won four . |
| 15 | ‘ One had him by one arm and the other his other arm . |
| 16 | Sadly Cottrell slumped on the final afternoon to total 300 , while Nowicki 's 70 put him on 291 , two strokes in front of MacPherson . |
| 17 | And there usually was somebody ready to fight him for twelve , especially on a Saturday night . |