Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 2 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 3 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 4 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 5 | Charity gazed at him for a second or two . |
| 6 | She only fought him for a moment or two . |
| 7 | " When I go on holiday Con always takes him for a week or two and he has never mentioned any … anything unusual … in that way . " |
| 8 | ‘ The police carried him through the crowd while all the people jumped at him , screaming and trying to attack him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't remember riding for Jonjo before , but it would be great to get him off the mark and this horse certainly has a bit of a chance , ’ smiled Willie who is closing fast on another century . |
| 10 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 11 | Students who come to him after an hour or more of reception learning may be more ready to take an active part than students who have already spent most of the morning burrowing in the library or measuring the school buildings . |
| 12 | Mr Heslop added that a court would not intervene in a management decision to dismiss a chief executive when allegations of bad faith were being made by him against the chairman and other board members . |
| 13 | That he was a good and strong swimmer I assumed , because his American youth had familiarized him with the sea and coastal sailing ; but , owing to his agoraphobia , I can not exactly imagine him enjoying a high dive . |
| 14 | Would Mrs Crump be less happy with him in a year or two than she was with Crump now ? |
| 15 | Blinded , the Executioner stumbled back , thrusting his sword out before him in a reflexive but vain posture of defence . |
| 16 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 17 | It had failed him in a crisis and that was once too often . |
| 18 | At a little after one she informed him that she was ready to leave , her expression leaving him in no doubt that any objections on his part would be swiftly killed . |
| 19 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 20 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 21 | The doctor put him in the middle or late fifties , though , being a doctor , he hedged a bit by saying he might be anywhere between forty-five and sixty . |
| 22 | His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house . |
| 23 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 24 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 25 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 26 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 27 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 28 | His later reading , especially of Scripture , led him to a Baptist and Calvinistic position . |
| 29 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 30 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |