Example sentences of "[vb past] he [prep] the [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 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Persistent rain prevented a resumption until 5pm on Saturday and a single by Hick off Winston Benjamin took him to the 20,000 mark . |
| 13 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 15 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 16 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 17 | That put him on the 142 mark alongside Sam Torrance ( 72 ) , with McAllister just behind . |
| 18 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 19 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |