Example sentences of "him [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I lost him three days ago and — ‘ |
| 3 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
| 4 | It would take him three days to reach Tracy with a small army and cumbersome siege machines slowing him down — what did one hour more or less matter ? |
| 5 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 6 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 7 | The outcome was that Alfonso banished his most trusted vassal , giving him ten days to leave Castile and Leon . |
| 8 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 9 | Jim Rodgers said a delegation of UUP councillors was still awaiting a meeting with the Security Minister after writing to him ten days ago . |
| 10 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 11 | Now he worked in offices of the Gas Board , and was studying accountancy , mostly at night , though the Board gave him one day off each week to attend classes . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye , ’ said Jake , ‘ I swore I 'd get him one day — I strung 'im up yon old oak and lit a bonfire under 'im . ’ |
| 13 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm to be on the committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows , ’ she told him one day . |
| 15 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 18 | Remind me to tell you about him one day . |
| 19 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 20 | ’ I just stood up to him one day — do n't ask me where I got the nerve from , because he was a bloody big geezer . |
| 21 | ‘ What are your favourite flowers , Ben ? ’ she asked him one day . |
| 22 | I said to him one day . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day . |
| 24 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 25 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 26 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
| 27 | I was afraid long ago , when I hit him in the mouth with that heavy glove , that I might kill him one day . |
| 28 | If she had nurtured any hope of forgetting him one day in the future his lovemaking had banished that hope forever . |
| 29 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 30 | You 'll have to meet him one day , Karen , seriously . ’ |