Example sentences of "[verb] him [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn .
2 They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day .
3 She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties .
4 But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’
5 A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure .
6 Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed .
7 She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour .
8 ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’
9 ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day .
10 The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance .
11 If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers .
12 People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance .
13 And would Feargal now give him the third degree ?
14 … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it .
15 Fearful of waking him a second time I waited .
16 ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her .
17 Give him the first half , and see what he would do .
18 As a matter of fact I usually just give him the first line or two and leave him to get on with it .
19 During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday .
20 You 're always give him the last sweet to him !
21 But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell .
22 Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge .
23 So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room .
24 That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions .
25 It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance .
26 There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " .
27 So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience ,
28 Riding him the next day , it was as if the handbrake had come off .
29 when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all
30 Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit .
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