Example sentences of "he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it .
2 He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun .
3 But because it 's so authentic people often mistake him for a real policeman .
4 Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry .
5 So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay .
6 Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool .
7 and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes
8 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 .
9 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
10 She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick , whom she marries , but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain .
11 Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’
12 The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence .
13 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
14 She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time .
15 She stared at him for a long time .
16 Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly .
17 Father Poole stared at him for a long while .
18 There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now .
19 I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better .
20 Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle .
21 She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression .
22 If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful .
23 She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger .
24 It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up .
25 Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time .
26 Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day .
27 Surere looked at him for a long time .
28 It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time .
29 She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said .
30 His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement .
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