Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels .
2 Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time .
3 So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out .
4 There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another .
5 His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room .
6 In a letter to Charles Empson , the Newcastle bookseller , dated 1 October 1831 , when he was eight parts into the Parrots , and Gould , who had overtaken him by this time , was already ten parts into his own publication , Lear complains :
7 His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’
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