Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it .
2 He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun .
3 But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman .
4 Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool .
5 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
6 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
7 She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time .
8 Father Poole stared at him for a long while .
9 Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle .
10 Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day .
11 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 .
12 She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said .
13 She stared at him for a long time .
14 Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly .
15 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 .
16 I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better .
17 If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful .
18 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
19 It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up .
20 Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time .
21 Surere looked at him for a long time .
22 It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time .
23 His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement .
24 It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time .
25 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 .
26 She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips .
27 She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time .
28 The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling .
29 One of these , Jimmie , was used by him for a harmless demonstration of the electrocardiogram at the Royal Society and became the subject of a famous parliamentary reply to a question from the anti-vivisection lobby ( Hansard , 8 July 1909 ) .
30 A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him .
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