Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 2 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 3 | It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England . |
| 4 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 5 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 6 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 7 | During the campaign itself Healey was noticed by only about 12 per cent on average but that concealed some sharp variations : 28 per cent noticed him in the last two days of the campaign , immediately after a spectacular on-screen row with TV-am presenter Ann Diamond . |
| 8 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 10 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 11 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 12 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 13 | ‘ Not before time , ’ Stevie remarked , as Patrick joined him on the 17th tee . |
| 14 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 15 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 16 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 17 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 18 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
| 19 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 20 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 21 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 22 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Maisie grabbed his arm and steered him towards the next gallery . |
| 25 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 26 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 27 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 28 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 29 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 30 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |