Example sentences of "him [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 2 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 3 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 4 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
| 5 | So I mean , I will continue to harass him through the twelve months if possible , because I think |
| 6 | It was through one of several friends who had remained loyal to him through the seven years of his ‘ jeopardy ’ , in two asylums , that his release was obtained : apparently Sherratt walked in and removed him from custody . |
| 7 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ossie wanted to ask him about the two gentlemen of Verona . |
| 10 | I fell in love with him during the two years of filming . |
| 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 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 13 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke ! |
| 16 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She says ; The last time I saw him with the two children was on Saturday . |
| 19 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 20 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 27 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 28 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 29 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 30 | Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ? |