Example sentences of "him [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 2 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been crazy about him ever since the first time I saw him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 5 | shrugging him close as a second skin |
| 6 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 7 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 8 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 9 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 10 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |