Example sentences of "him [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 2 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 3 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 4 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 5 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 6 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 7 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 8 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 9 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 10 | He was aware that it was trite , but the alternative was to express the scepticism that had grown inside him in the intervening days . |
| 11 | ‘ Ow long are you weeth us , Reeky ? ’ asked Claudia , who 'd had a secret crush on him in the old days and was appalled to see how grey and tense he looked . |
| 12 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 13 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 14 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 15 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 16 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 17 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |