Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
2 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
3 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
4 | The recorder Nicholas Jarman jailed him for a further 3 and a half years for what he described as a terrible act with the most appalling consequences . |
5 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
6 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
7 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
8 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
9 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
10 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
11 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
12 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
13 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
14 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
15 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
16 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
17 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
18 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
19 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
20 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
21 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
22 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
23 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
24 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
25 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
26 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
27 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |
28 | Kiro Gligorov of the Macedonian LC was elected President of the republic only at the second attempt on Jan. 27 after VMRO-DPMNE deputies had failed to back him ( he was sole candidate ) in a first ballot on Jan. 19 , thereby depriving him of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
29 | Julian Jochim the star of England 's youth team last season is just five feet six inches tall and David Speedy towers over him with a lofty five feet seven . |
30 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |