Example sentences of "him [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 2 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 3 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 4 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 5 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 6 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 7 | Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool . |
| 8 | And it does give him a few funny stories to tell his mates in the pub . |
| 9 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 10 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 11 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 12 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 13 | These people will just ask him a few questions , make a few tests . |
| 14 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 15 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
| 16 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 17 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 18 | During the evening she caught sight of him a few times , always dancing , holding his partners very close , and managing to avoid her eyes . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 20 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 21 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 22 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 23 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 24 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 25 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 26 | She 'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending , heartless , authoritarian attitude . |
| 27 | I just barged up to him a few times during the evening and in the end he said , ‘ Alright then , let's hear you sing ’ and he was impressed . |
| 28 | ‘ I only wanted to ask him a few questions . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 30 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |