Example sentences of "him [adv] for the [adj] " 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 | At the last he was in front , but he was dead tired and Winter could do nothing to hold him together for the final desperate few yards to the line . |
| 3 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 4 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 5 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 6 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 7 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 8 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 9 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 10 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 11 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 14 | These three have worked together harmoniously and with some notable successes since Reilly took charge early in 1987 and it is certain that he would want them alongside him again for the hard year ahead , in which Great Britain play 10 Tests , including three World Cup games . |
| 15 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |