Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 4 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 5 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 6 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 7 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact ! |
| 11 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 12 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 13 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 14 | His interest in transferring aquatinted designs to pottery led him in 1771 to approach Josiah Wedgwood [ q.v. ] , who after considerable interest finally lost patience with the headstrong Burdett , who had hopes of years of lucrative work from his process . |
| 15 | His wife predeceased him in 1841 , leaving no children . |
| 16 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 17 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 19 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 20 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 21 | Chris Renninson set Hibberd away down the right and his excellent control took him past two defenders and gave him the time and space to send over a pinpoint cross to O'Shea , who rose unchallenged to head home from close range . |
| 22 | Robson played 44 of Coventry 's 50 games and none of his rare absences was connected with the pelvic injury which at one stage of his Hammers ' career restricted him to 13 games in three years . |
| 23 | The 55-year-old 's icy calm distinguished him as one of General Norman Schwarzkopf 's closest aides during the Gulf War . |
| 24 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 25 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |
| 26 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 27 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 28 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 29 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 30 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |