Example sentences of "him for [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them . |
| 2 | Annie stood watching him for a few moments . |
| 3 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 4 | The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer . |
| 5 | His face was absorbed , and Hilary stood quietly , studying him for a few moments . |
| 6 | With an embarrassed shrug , she leaned more comfortably against the seat , and , watching him for a few moments , asked curiously , ‘ Why did you invite me today ? ’ |
| 7 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 8 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 9 | Hart listened to him for a few minutes , shouted hello to his brothers who were sitting outside and wished the boy luck . |
| 10 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 11 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 12 | Will talked with him for a few minutes , then gave him a penny . |
| 13 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 14 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 15 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 16 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 17 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 19 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 20 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 21 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 22 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 23 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 24 | You know he 's twenty two , twenty three years old , you know , you know whatever he 's doing he 's liable to be with him for a few years yet and what can one see |
| 25 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 26 | We stood and stared after him for a few seconds , then one of the mortar team behind me remarked . |
| 27 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 28 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 29 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 30 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |