Example sentences of "him for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 6 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 7 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 10 | 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 ? |