Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell pretty good figures , this is er fifteenth over , two for seventeen , eight maidens , giving the one wicket that goes field him for thirty-four and he comes up again , that little hop and bowls to DaSilva goes down the pitch , tips this one up to mid-on , but er wo n't get one as figure Lawrence is there to stop it , so no run , to play to sixteen overs , seven twenty eight . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately . |
| 3 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 4 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 5 | Defender Ian Harold starts a three-match ban , while player-boss John Carroll is again doubtful with the Achilles injury that has sidelined him in recent games . |
| 6 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 7 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 8 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 9 | But I learned about the problem that has dogged him from race one , and he confirmed to me : ‘ At the end of the season I 'll be having an operation . ’ |
| 10 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 11 | In terms of his career , Bristol Rovers ' FA Cup tie at Aston Villa on Saturday is Allison 's last ride on a footballing roller coaster that has delivered him to gravity-defying heights and suicidal lows . |
| 12 | He told him of the goal that has held him through three years in the University of the North — a campus from which student riots have spread through the country . |
| 13 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |