Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 2 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 3 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 5 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 6 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 7 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 8 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 9 | Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels , which were driven ashore by a storm , and then burnt by Wulfnoth . |
| 10 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 11 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 12 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 13 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 15 | This charge could not be proved but the military tribunal condemned him to 10 years absence from public life . |
| 16 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 17 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 18 | Brown told him in thirty seconds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 21 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 22 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A wild urge to uproot himself , coupled with unhappy years of accumulated bitterness , threw him into one assault after another . |
| 25 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 26 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 27 | His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months . |
| 28 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 29 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |