Example sentences of "him [adv] for [art] [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 | He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump . |
| 5 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 6 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 7 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 8 | Originally , Geoff Huffer , Ile De Nisky 's trainer , felt his colt was immature and was going to give him just one more run before putting him away for an ambitious campaign next year . |
| 9 | His sports and hobbies frequently took him away for the best part of the weekend ; work also ate into parts of Saturday and Sunday . |
| 10 | But when the Cup ties came round , Chapman made another , more dramatic decision — he dropped Alex James , the man intended as the team 's dynamo , and sent him home for a complete rest . |
| 11 | ‘ You can leave him behind for a few days . ’ |
| 12 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 15 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 16 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nicola looked at him steadily for a few seconds . |
| 21 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |