Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 4 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
| 5 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 6 | Selahattin Simsek said that during his interrogation , police officers tortured him for 23 consecutive days , but he confessed to nothing more than ‘ a certain sympathy ’ for the PKK . |
| 7 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 8 | Ludens followed him into one of the other rooms , a bedroom , green , where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness . |
| 9 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 10 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 11 | The sponsors offer him at 33-1 , which could be generous , while making Ghofar and Bonanza Boy joint favourites at 5-1 . |
| 12 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 13 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 14 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 15 | Police arrested him with 14 ounces of the drug in January and he now faces up to 25 years in jail . |
| 16 | He felt unseen hands help him into one of the partitioned stalls and there he stretched out and closed his stinging eyes . |
| 17 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 18 | Magistrates bailed him for eight weeks on conditions which included not venturing out alone from the Leahurst residential home for the mentally disturbed . |
| 19 | At Lincoln Crown Court today Judge Richard Hutchinson who 'd adjourned the case for reports sentenced him to two consecutive eighteen month prison terms . |