Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knight asked Aung San to meet him on 9 August ; he looked ‘ very thin' . |
| 2 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 3 | Only with incredible luck , against all the odds , could he reasonably hope to make a safe exit from Russian soil and reach safe ground from which the Americans might be able to extricate him in one piece . |
| 4 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 5 | Although technically Yeltsin was still able to nominate Gaidar as Prime Minister , subject to Congress 's approval , and to retain him for three months even without such approval , it appeared that , realising the need for political compromise , he chose Chernomyrdin with Gaidar 's acquiescence . |
| 6 | He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied . |
| 7 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 8 | Without resources , unable to earn a living , at the mercy of at least two Federal agencies determined to silence him by one means or another , and now set up as a government-approved target for any stray kook or fanatic , Coleman had to find a more defensible position . |
| 9 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 10 | I knew I needed the disguise because I would be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 11 | And we would never be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 12 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 13 | Anthony McDonald , 29 , of Deanston Road , Shawlands , Glasgow , admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland , Kilmarnock Road , Glasgow , and attempting to rob him on 20 January . |
| 14 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 15 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |