Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | She stared at him for a long time . |
2 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
3 | Father Poole stared at him for a long while . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
6 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
10 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
11 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
12 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
13 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
18 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
19 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
20 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
21 | Mm , they 'll last him for a long , long time . |
22 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
23 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
24 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
25 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
26 | The problem was eventually reduced by putting a headstall on him with a long rope attached . |
27 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
28 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
29 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
30 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |