Example sentences of "him [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Archie joined him a few seconds later , closing the door behind him . |
| 32 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 33 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 34 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 35 | Stuart bellowed his words as if answering a court-martial and failure to enunciate perfectly at top volume would earn him a few more years in the glasshouse . |
| 36 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 37 | Patrick guessed he was bringing a tray into the sitting room , which gave him a few moments . |
| 38 | " Not yet ; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions . |
| 39 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 40 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Give him a few more minutes , ’ Desmond advised . |
| 42 | When they saw Ruth , both men looked slightly abashed , like a pair of overgrown schoolboys , and Connor explained : ‘ This young man wants to learn the rudiments of sparring , so I said I 'd give him a few pointers . |
| 43 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 44 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 45 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
| 46 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
| 47 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 48 | The screen shivered and cleared as he cut off , which allowed me to offer him a few choice epithets that he could n't hear . |
| 49 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
| 50 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 51 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 52 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 53 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
| 54 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 55 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 56 | I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away … |
| 57 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
| 58 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
| 59 | Give him a few more seconds , then turn the car round . |
| 60 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |