Example sentences of "him [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll give him seventy-five milligrams of pethidine , get the shots and go from there . ’ |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten I had tried to walk out on him fifty kilometres or so back . |
| 3 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 4 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 5 | Sir Walter Scott , however , had no such constraints upon him fifty years later , and he had the added advantage of seeing Lady Grange 's journal . |
| 6 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 7 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 8 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 9 | She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited . |
| 10 | In March , however , they relented and — perhaps persuaded by the convalescent Hamilton — agreed to pay him eight guineas . |
| 11 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 12 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 13 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 14 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 15 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |
| 16 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 17 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 18 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 19 | One of John Hill 's best friends , who 's helped found the Cotwsold Motorboat racing club with him 30 years ago , says he was the sports leading lights … |
| 20 | Give him thirty-six hours then apply pressure . ’ |
| 21 | Since he has taken most wickets against Pakistan it is no surprise that a Pakistani , Mudassar Nazar , is Kapil Dev 's Test ‘ rabbit ’ , having fallen to him 12 times . |
| 22 | He also said 43-year-old Sarfraz revealed the secrets of Pakistan 's reverse swing to him 12 years ago . |
| 23 | And he is currently working on a kingfisher which he estimates will take him 12 months to complete . |
| 24 | Leeds bought him 2 years ago I think … although I may be wrong — he was nt on schoolboy forms or anything . |
| 25 | Former club chairman Brian Hillier , who last year served a prison sentence for cheating the taxman over cash payments to players , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court , Tobin had tried to blackmail him 2 years ago , demanding £2,000 to keep silent about cash payments . |
| 26 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 27 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
| 28 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
| 29 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 30 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |