Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 2 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 4 | His knowledge of foreign issues was limited and Roosevelt had not consulted him in the brief period that Truman held the vice-presidency . |
| 5 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 6 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 7 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 8 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 9 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 10 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 11 | ‘ The Soviets have now transferred him to a Labour Camp . ’ |
| 12 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 13 | He had pride at stake , deposed champion Senna to humble — and a point to underline to the team that has negligently abandoned him to a new career in America . |
| 14 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 15 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 16 | In other words , if they had n't got him with the six he 'd never have gone bloody broke ! |
| 17 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 18 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 19 | And she had almost lost him by the attempted theft of his best boots . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |