Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 2 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 3 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 4 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 5 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 6 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 7 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 8 | The problem was eventually reduced by putting a headstall on him with a long rope attached . |
| 9 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
| 10 | She stared at him for a long time . |
| 11 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
| 12 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 13 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
| 14 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
| 15 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
| 16 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |