Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] day " in BNC.

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1 A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline .
2 Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two .
3 I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’
4 ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse .
5 We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price .
6 Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’
7 They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday .
8 They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday .
9 Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day .
10 He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day .
11 He 's multiple in disability , but we get help in Kilmarnock from Salvation Army , who take him during the day , FAB club where I go with him at night , and the hospital , Curtlingside now , who take him for respite social and everything .
12 working , I sha n't find him during the day , he said , they 're off
13 Rose had n't asked him where they were driving to ; she did n't care anyhow : it was enough to be with him in the day .
14 He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) .
15 Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward .
16 Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise .
17 Although he had been a sobering and restricting influence in a Germanic way upon the Queen , she took to wearing black immediately after his death and , in a sense , appeared never to cease mourning for him until the day she died .
18 I would n't advise anybody to back him until the day of the race . ’
19 I would n't advise anybody to back him until the day of the race . ’
20 He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out .
21 God will call her to Him on the Day of judgment , asking ‘ Where is the daughter who had pity on her earthly father , the filthy drunkard , and was undismayed by his beastliness ? ’
22 During his time in Brazil he was sheltered by Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert , an Austrian couple introduced to him by Gerhard , who were with him on the day he died .
23 Anthony Quinn 's Mexican/Irish temper got the better of him on the day he married Katherine De Mille , daughter of the director Cecil B De Mille .
24 Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down .
25 ‘ I think you wrote to him on the day that he died .
26 Permanent support from the group : from the outset , the franchisee receives the backing of the company 's teams who contribute their professional skills and know-how , in order to monitor the franchisee 's progress and advise him on the day to day management of the restaurants .
27 In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) .
28 Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test .
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