Example sentences of "him [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 3 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 4 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 5 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 6 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 7 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 8 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 9 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 10 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We 've had our eye on him for some time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 25 | Ian Salisbury , who played in half the Test matches , returned figures which will haunt him for some time . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 27 | Give him a call and ask him for some winners . ’ |
| 28 | He looked around him for some sort of weapon , backing off as Duvall walked slowly towards him . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 30 | He appeared to have learned his lesson last season , but the fact that he needs Robson 's ‘ Englishness ’ for Europe means he will pick him for some league games such as Chelsea last week , and was n't he crap ; > } |