Example sentences of "him [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 2 | A bloke who was trying to get at the tomato purée gave him rather an odd look , but Quigley was not bothered . |
| 3 | Gradually , because of all the trouble he was getting into , and with Mr Crangle eyeing him suspiciously every time he the Bookman . |
| 4 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 5 | He had a flowing white mane , and an expression of vaguely inscrutable self-possession , giving him somewhat the air of a Nordic Chinese Mandarin . |
| 6 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |
| 7 | The Tehran trip in May , in which he was humiliated , made him all the more certain that however good the ends , ‘ this was not the kind of exchange that was proper . ’ |
| 8 | They 'll love him all the more . |
| 9 | He was an ex-miner , and this endeared him all the more to Chapman , who , being familiar with mining , knew and admired the strength and fighting qualities which life down the pit bred in a man . |
| 10 | It made him all the more determined to do something . |
| 11 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 12 | She raised her head , hoping he might realise how tired she was ; her dark eyes were looking into his , exciting him all the more . |
| 13 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 14 | Mach studied him thoughtfully a moment , then nodded . |
| 15 | His wife and daughter starred with him so the wholesomeness of the Tillers suited the family image he was anxious to present . |
| 16 | I kept away from him so the rest of the family would n't find out what I was up to . |
| 17 | Where the valuer is advising an individual contemplating such an investment , he should discuss the likely possibility with him so the shares can be valued on that expectancy . |
| 18 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 19 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
| 20 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 21 | Matilda was still only 25 and Geoffrey a mere 14 , but it was the wisest thing Henry I did in order to secure his dynastic survival ( after the disastrous loss of his heir when the White Ship sank with loss of all hands , leaving him only a single female heir ) . |
| 22 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 23 | On one occasion , he screamed for the guards , saying someone had stolen the contents of his Red Cross Parcel , leaving him only a tin of beans and of jam . |
| 24 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
| 25 | Doctors gave him only a 50-50 chance of survival . |
| 26 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 27 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 28 | Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again . |
| 29 | She had brought the baby to the Lab to see him only a fortnight ago . |
| 30 | The Soviet President , whose domestic popularity had plummeted to the extent that opinion polls currently gave him only a 19 per cent approval rating , said that the award was a " recognition of our perestroika " . |