Example sentences of "him [adv] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 2 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 3 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 4 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 5 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |