Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 12 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 16 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 17 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 18 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 19 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 20 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 21 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 22 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 23 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |