Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time .
2 Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming .
3 So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out .
4 She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her .
5 ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’
6 ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’
7 I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time .
8 There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another .
9 His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room .
10 In a letter to Charles Empson , the Newcastle bookseller , dated 1 October 1831 , when he was eight parts into the Parrots , and Gould , who had overtaken him by this time , was already ten parts into his own publication , Lear complains :
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