Example sentences of "him [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 2 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 3 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 4 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 5 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 6 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 7 | Or — and this more horrible idea had been very obscurely with him for some time — how had he dared to entertain it ? — perhaps Marcus — Marcus had spoken of evil yearnings , of a crime , perhaps committed already , perhaps in a dream — No , that was unthinkable , impossible . |
| 8 | We 've had our eye on him for some time . |
| 9 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 11 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 12 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 13 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 15 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 16 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 18 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 20 | The old lady would n't reach him in that time ; but the assistant saw her swing her right arm forward , the hand clutching a furled umbrella by its ferrule. the crook of the umbrella hooked inside the front of the little boy 's blazer and hooked him like a fish from water out of the path of the skidding car . |
| 21 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 22 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 23 | I must get him alongside this time , he thought . |
| 24 | Raven also had him round several times to meals at his house . |
| 25 | 4.2.2 invite the parties to subject to him within such time limits as he may direct such written representations concerning the matter or matters in dispute as they may respectively wish |
| 26 | Whoever killed him , killed him within that time , for he had not stirred . |
| 27 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |
| 28 | I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean . |
| 29 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 30 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |